ARMY NATIONAL GUARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Army National Guard mean? 

• ARMY NATIONAL GUARD (noun)
  The noun ARMY NATIONAL GUARD has 1 sense:

1. a civilian reserve component of the United States Army comprised of guardsmen who serve during overseas peacekeeping missions and during local emergencies

  Familiarity information: ARMY NATIONAL GUARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMY NATIONAL GUARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A civilian reserve component of the United States Army comprised of guardsmen who serve during overseas peacekeeping missions and during local emergencies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Army National Guard; ARNG

Hypernyms ("Army National Guard" is a kind of...):

home reserve; National Guard (United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Holonyms ("Army National Guard" is a part of...):

Army; U. S. Army; United States Army; US Army; USA (the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare)