Trending: ā€˜guardianā€™

Lookups spiked 6,300% on July 23, 2021

Why are people looking up guardian?

Guardian was among our top lookups on July 23rd, 2021, after Cleveland's baseball team announced that this would be its new name.

The Major League Baseball team in Cleveland is changing its name to Guardians, the franchise announced Friday, dropping the controversial ā€œIndians,ā€ by which it had been known for more than a century.
ā€” Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 July 2021

What does guardian mean?

Guardian may be defined in ways that might be apt for the name of a professional sports franchise (ā€œone that guardsā€), in ways that are inapt for such a name (ā€œone who has the care of the person or property of anotherā€), and in ways that might be puzzling in such a setting (ā€œa superior of a Franciscan monasteryā€). We presume that ā€œone that guardsā€ is the intended meaning in this case.

What is notable about this use of guardian?

Citations

The Lord Mayor,Ā and is a Citizen, yearly chosen by the Citizens, and approved by the King, unless sometimes for Disloyalty, their Priviledges, andĀ FranchisesĀ are taken from them; and aĀ GuardianĀ set over them, as was done byĀ Hen.Ā the Third, andĀ Ed.Ā the First.
ā€” A compendium of the laws and government ecclesiastical, civil and military, of England, Scotland & Ireland, 1699

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