Garda

• garda

From Irish Garda (“guardian”), from Irish Garda Síochána (“Guardian of the Peace”) and Garda Síochána na hÉireann (“Guardian of the Peace of Ireland”) after the model of the French Third Republic's civilian French gardiens de la paix, from Old French guarde, from guarder (“to guard”), from Frankish *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną. Doublet of guard, guardian, and warden.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑɹdə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːdə/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də

Garda (plural Gardai or Gardaí)

1. Synonym of Gardai, the national police force of the Republic of Ireland.
2. (inexact, chiefly Ireland, chiefly in the plural) Synonym of police generally.
   • 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 115:

     Sure don't mind the Gardaí they say. They can't see in.

Garda (plural Gardai or Gardaí)

1. A member of the Gardai, an Irish national police officer

   Garda Michael Egan

• guardian of the peace

• Agard

Clipping of Garda Síochána (literally “Guardian of the Peace”).

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɾˠd̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːɾˠd̪ˠə/

Garda m (genitive singular Garda, nominative plural Gardaí)

1. A member of the Garda Síochána (the Irish police force).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡar.da/
• Rhymes: -arda
• Hyphenation: Gàr‧da

Garda f

1. a town in Verona, Veneto, Italy, on the shore of Lake Garda

• gardesano

• draga