Usually means: Protector, monitor of water safety.
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  1. lifeguard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lifeguard: Merriam-Webster
  3. lifeguard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lifeguard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lifeguard: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lifeguard: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lifeguard, lifeguard: Wordnik
  8. lifeguard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lifeguard: Wiktionary
  10. lifeguard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lifeguard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lifeguard: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lifeguard: Dictionary.com
  14. lifeguard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lifeguard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lifeguard (automobile safety), Lifeguard (comics), Lifeguard (disambiguation), Lifeguard (film), Lifeguard (military), Lifeguard, The Lifeguard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. lifeguard: Rhymezone
  18. lifeguard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. lifeguard: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lifeguard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lifeguard: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lifeguard: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lifeguard: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A lifesaver: a rescuer, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water.
noun:  (uncommon) A bodyguard or unit of bodyguards, a guard of someone's (especially a king's) life or person.
noun:  (rail transport) A sturdy metal bracket fixed in front of each of the leading wheels of a train to deflect small objects away from the wheels to prevent derailment.

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