rearguards

Meaning of rearguards

plural 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 rearguards

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of rearguards is: rearguard.
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Hyphenation of rearguards

rear-guards

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • rearguards is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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