REPUBLICAN GUARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republican Guard mean? 

• REPUBLICAN GUARD (noun)
  The noun REPUBLICAN GUARD has 1 sense:

1. formerly Iraq's elite military unit whose primary role was to protect the government in Baghdad

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLICAN GUARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formerly Iraq's elite military unit whose primary role was to protect the government in Baghdad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Republican Guard" is a kind of...):

force; military force; military group; military unit (a unit that is part of some military service)

Domain region:

Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)