# minder

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #57,562

## Definitions
1. One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
2. A personal bodyguard.
3. A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
4. One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.

## Etymology
From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind + -er.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/minder