Guardian vs. Gardian

Guardiannoun

Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.

Gardian

A gardian is a mounted cattle herdsman in the Camargue delta in Provence, southern France. The work is akin to that of the Mexican charro, the North American cowboy, the Tuscan buttero or the Portuguese campino.

Guardiannoun

(legal) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).

Guardiannoun

(legal) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.

Guardiannoun

A superior in a Franciscan monastery.

Guardiannoun

(video games) A major or final enemy; boss.

Guardiannoun

One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.

Guardiannoun

One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs.

‘Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. - viz., the father and (in some cases) the mother of the child.’;

Guardianadjective

Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.

Guardiannoun

a person who cares for persons or property

Guardianadjective

providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding;

‘daycare that is educational and not just custodial’; ‘a guardian angel’; ‘tutelary gods’;

Guardiannoun

a person who protects or defends something

‘self-appointed guardians of public morality’;

Guardiannoun

a person who is legally responsible for the care of someone who is unable to manage their own affairs, especially a child whose parents have died

‘I am acting as guardian of my late brother's family’;

Guardiannoun

the superior of a Franciscan convent.