guardant

English

A lion statant guardant.

Alternative forms

• gardant

Etymology

From Old French guardant, present participle of guarder (“to watch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)dənt/

Adjective

guardant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, of an animal) Positioned with the body viewed from the side, but with the head turned toward the viewer.

Related terms

• reguardant, regardant

Translations

heraldry: with head toward viewer

• Finnish: kohtikatsova (fi)
• Swedish: framåtvänd, utåtseende, med hitvänt ansikte

Noun

guardant (plural guardants)

1. (obsolete) A guardian.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     But when my angry guardant stood alone,
     Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none,
     Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart
     Suddenly made him from my side to start
     Into the clustering battle of the French.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “guardant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Catalan

Verb

guardant

1. gerund of guardar

Middle French

Verb

guardant (feminine singular guardante, masculine plural guardans, feminine plural guardantes)

1. present participle of guarder
2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of guarder

Old French

Verb

guardant

1. present participle of guarder