单词 | national guard |
释义 | National Guardn. 1. An armed force existing in France at various times between 1789 and 1871 and responsible to a central authority. Also: a member of this force. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > [noun] > other nationalities National Guard1792 black flags1876 service member1890 Wehrmacht1935 Tojo1942 Fighting French1943 Zahal1959 1792 H. M. Williams Lett. France I. ii This wretch, Henriot, had been one of the executioners on the second of September, and was appointed by the commune of Paris, on the 31st of May, to take the command of the national guard. 1793 Observer 27 Jan. in M. Miliband Observer of 19th Cent. (1966) i. 4 The train moved on with a slow pace from the Temple to the Boulevards, which were planted with cannon, and beset with National Guards, drums beating, trumpets sounding, and colours flying. 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 182 He set out in the uniform of a national guard. 1983 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 55 42 A popular insurrection in February 1790..forced the local authorities to establish a democratically elected National Guard. 2. In the United States: a militia force largely maintained by individual states but available also for federal use. Also: a member of this force. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > municipal or national guard National Guard1847 Garde Mobile1848 milice1945 1847 Santa Fé (New Mexico) Republican 18 Dec. 3/1 Some National Guards that were at San Antonio had a small fight. 1868 N.Y. Herald 4 July 6/1 The First division of the National Guard will parade. 1909 World To-day Oct. 1099 While many of the American states designate their amateur soldiery as ‘National Guards’, the venerable Bay State still sticks to the thoroughly Yankee caption of ‘militia’. 1973 Freedomways 13 14 The forces of state power (the police, the army, the National Guard) will be used. 2001 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. iv. 2/4 The Pentagon is opening the nation's elite strategic nuclear forces to members of the National Guard and Reserves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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