Word Meanings - GUARDIANSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GUARDIANSHIP)

• Conservation
• Preservation
• keeping
• protection
• guardianship
• maintenance
• stabilisation
• perpetuation
• Tutelage
• Protection
• minority
• training
• pupilage

Related words: (words related to GUARDIANSHIP)

• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• CONSERVATIONAL
  Tending to conserve; preservative.
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• KEEP
  k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• TRAINER
  1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
• PERPETUATION
  The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance. Sir T. Browne.
• TRAIN DISPATCHER
  An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.
• TRAINBEARER
  One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
• PRESERVATION
  The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy
• KEEPERSHIP
  The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
• TRAIN
  To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey. (more info) 1. To draw along;
• MAINTENANCE
  An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap. (more info) 1. The act of maintaining; sustenance;
• PROTECTIONISM
  The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
• TRAINY
  Belonging to train oil. Gay.
• MINORITY
  1. The state of being a minor, or under age. 2. State of being less or small. Sir T. Browne. 3. The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
• KEEPING
  Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping. Keeping room, a family sitting room. Syn. -- Care; guardianship; custody; possession. (more info) 1. A holding;
• TRAIN OIL
  Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.
• CROWKEEPER
  A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.