Oh! I know very well that he is dead! cried out the trembling girl while lifting her tear-flooded face towards her protector.
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Protector
//pɹəˈtɛktɚ//
Synonyms for "protector" (36 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (18)
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3 entriesRelated terms
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1 entrieshas context
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5 entriesTranslations
77 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- προστάτης noun (someone who protects or guards)
Arabic
1 entries- حَامٍ noun (someone who protects or guards)
Armenian
1 entries- պահապան noun (someone who protects or guards)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- havadar noun (someone who protects or guards)
- himayədar noun (someone who protects or guards)
- qoruyucu noun (someone who protects or guards)
Bengali
2 entries- মহাফেজ noun (someone who protects or guards)
- রক্ষী noun (someone who protects or guards)
Bulgarian
3 entries- защитник noun (someone who protects or guards)
- предпазител noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
- протектор noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
Catalan
2 entries- protector noun (someone who protects or guards)
- protector noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- حافیز noun (someone who protects or guards)
- پاڕێزگار noun (someone who protects or guards)
Chamorro
1 entries- a'adahi noun (someone who protects or guards)
Czech
1 entries- ochránce noun (someone who protects or guards)
Danish
1 entries- beskytter noun (someone who protects or guards)
Dutch
3 entries- behoeder noun (someone who protects or guards)
- beschermer noun (someone who protects or guards)
- beschermheer noun (someone who protects or guards)
Faroese
1 entries- verndari noun (someone who protects or guards)
Finnish
3 entries- suoja noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
- suojamekanismi noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
- suojelija noun (someone who protects or guards)
French
3 entries- gardien noun (someone who protects or guards)
- protecteur noun (someone who protects or guards)
- protecteur noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
Galician
1 entries- protector noun (someone who protects or guards)
German
2 entries- Beschützer noun (someone who protects or guards)
- Protektor noun (a state exercising a protectorate)
Hindi
3 entries- अभिभावक noun (someone who protects or guards)
- अभिरक्षक noun (someone who protects or guards)
- रक्षक noun (someone who protects or guards)
Irish
1 entries- cosantóir noun (someone who protects or guards)
Italian
2 entries- protettore noun (someone who protects or guards)
- protettrice noun (someone who protects or guards)
Latin
4 entries- fautor noun (someone who protects or guards)
- patrōna noun (someone who protects or guards)
- patrōnus noun (someone who protects or guards)
- praeses noun (someone who protects or guards)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- parêzvan noun (someone who protects or guards)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- параклитъ noun (someone who protects or guards)
Old English
1 entries- sċildend noun (someone who protects or guards)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صاحب noun (someone who protects or guards)
Portuguese
2 entries- protetor noun (someone who protects or guards)
- protetor noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
Romanian
4 entries- protectoare noun (someone who protects or guards)
- protectoare noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
- protector noun (someone who protects or guards)
- protector noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
Russian
4 entries- защи́тник noun (someone who protects or guards)
- защи́тница noun (someone who protects or guards)
- предохрани́тель noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
- проте́ктор noun (a state exercising a protectorate)
Sanskrit
1 entries- नाथ noun (someone who protects or guards)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- tèarmannair noun (someone who protects or guards)
Sikkimese
1 entries- མགོན noun (someone who protects or guards)
Spanish
4 entries- protector noun (someone who protects or guards)
- protector noun (a mechanism which is designed to protect)
- protectora noun (someone who protects or guards)
- valedor noun (someone who protects or guards)
Swedish
2 entries- beskyddare noun (someone who protects or guards)
- protektor noun (someone who protects or guards)
Turkish
4 entries- hami noun (someone who protects or guards)
- koruyucu noun (someone who protects or guards)
- mevla noun (someone who protects or guards)
- sahip noun (someone who protects or guards)
Ukrainian
2 entries- захисник noun (someone who protects or guards)
- захисниця noun (someone who protects or guards)
Urdu
1 entries- محافظ noun (someone who protects or guards)
Welsh
1 entries- amddiffynnwr noun (someone who protects or guards)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Tom was my protector.
Source: tatoeba (5754455)
The prayer finished, they resumed their seat in the shadow of the boulder until the child fell asleep, nestling upon the broad breast of her protector.
Source: tatoeba (6310891)
Beautiful and pale as the fabulous Naiad in the last agony of separation from her lover, she was seated so as to rest with her back against a part of the ruined wall, while her mantle, dripping with the water which her protector had used profusely to recall her senses, clung to her slender and beautifully proportioned form.
Source: tatoeba (7752175)
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