Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a person or group of persons employed to guard an individual, as a high official, from bodily harm.
- a retinue; escort.
verb (used with or without object)
- to provide with or act as a bodyguard.
noun
- a person or group of people who escort and protect someone, esp a political figure
1735, “retinue, escort,” collective singular, from body + guard (n.). Attested 1861 as “a soldier of the bodyguard.”