rearguard

Meaning of rearguard

noun
  1. 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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