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garde du corps



Definitions

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garde du corps
     1. n-m. bodyguard
French > French
garde du corps
     1. n-m. Professionnel qui escorte, protège, certaines personnes dont la sécurité peut être menacée, en particulier à cause de leur profession.
     2. n-m. (Figuré) Personne qui en escorte une autre.
Analysis
garde
     1. n. a watch, guard
     2. n. a battalion responsible for guarding, defending a sovereign, a prince, more generally, of an elite corps.
     3. n. (military) sentry service performed by soldiers.
     4. n. (military) soldiers doing the sentry service
     5. n. any person who performs regular service on a rotating basis.
     garder
          1. v. to keep; to retain; to store; to save
                garder les yeux ouverts - to keep eyes open
                Elle a le droit de garder secrètes la plupart de ses caractéristiques. - She has the right to keep most of her characteristics secret.
          2. v. to guard
                Ils gardent le bâtiment. - They guard the building.
du
     1. contraction. contraction of de + le (t=of the)
           « Eussent » est la troisième personne du pluriel de l'imparfait du subjonctif de « avoir ». - "Eussent" is the third-person plural imperfect subjunctive form of "avoir.".
     2. contraction. , translation=The bulge gives 9nine liters more than the point which corresponds to that of the diameter of the base indicated by the gauge (...)
     3. art. Forms the partitive article.
           Il mange du pain. - He eats bread. / He eats some bread.
     de
          1. prep. of (expresses belonging)
                Paris est la capitale de la France. - Paris is the capital of France.
          2. prep. of (used to express property or association)
                Œuvres de Fermat - Fermat’s Works
                Elle est la femme de mon ami. - She is my friend’s wife.
     le
          1. art. the (definite article)
                Le lait du matin. - The milk of the morning.
          2. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English.
                L'amour est aveugle. - Love is blind.
          3. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc.
corps
     1. n-m. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
     2. n-m. (military) corps



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