guardianship

Other forms of guardianship

plural

guardianships·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about guardianship

What does guardianship mean?

guardianship means "attention and management implying responsibility for safety". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guardianship?

guardianship has 4 syllables: gu-ar-dian-ship. The stress falls on "gu". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹdiənʃɪp/.

What is another word for guardianship?

Close synonyms include care, charge, tutelage, keeping, safekeeping. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guardianship a common word?

guardianship is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.