GUARDIANSHIP
Dictionary entry overview: What does guardianship mean?
• GUARDIANSHIP (noun)
The noun GUARDIANSHIP has 2 senses:
1. attention and management implying responsibility for safety
2. the responsibility of a guardian or keeper
Familiarity information: GUARDIANSHIP used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GUARDIANSHIP (noun)
Meaning:
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
guardianship; tutelage; care; charge
Context example:
he is in the care of a bodyguard
Hypernyms ("guardianship" is a kind of...):
protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guardianship"):
due care; ordinary care; reasonable care (the care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty)
foster care (supervised care for delinquent or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home)
great care (more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons)
providence (the guardianship and control exercised by a deity)
slight care (such care as a careless or inattentive person would exercise)
Meaning:
The responsibility of a guardian or keeper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
safekeeping; guardianship; keeping
Context example:
he left his car in my keeping
Hypernyms ("guardianship" is a kind of...):
duty; obligation; responsibility (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guardianship"):
custody; hands ((with 'in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child)
