home guard

1. 1.

   a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere

   Broaderguard

   Narroweryeomanry

   military

Questions about home guard

What does home guard mean?

home guard means "a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere".

Is home guard a common word?

home guard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.