rearguard
Meaning of rearguard
noun
- the soldiers at the rear of a body of troops, especially those protecting a retreating army.
the firing from our rearguard had stopped
late Middle English (denoting the rear part of an army): from Old French rereguarde .
Information about rearguard
- It is a name.
- The plural form of rearguard is: rearguards.
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Hyphenation of rearguard
rear-guard
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- rearguard is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with rearguard
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