Meanings
nounguard post (plural guard posts)
plural guard posts
- A location where a guard is posted (station), often having a guardhouse.
In 1938 my husband and I were sent by the old regimental district branch to a guard post called Boli on the border between Manchuria and the Soviet Union.
1986, Chiharu Kōno, “Women in Flight”, in Richard L. Gage, transl., Women Against War: Personal Accounts of Forty Japanese Women, Kodansha International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26
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Bulgarian пост
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Danish vagtpost
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Finnish vartio
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German Warte
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Hungarian őrhely, poszt
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- őrállomásTranslations
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Polish posterunek
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APA
guard post. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guard%20post
MLA
“guard post.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guard%20post. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guard post,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guard%20post.
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