guarda
Spanish, noun
guarda is spelled G-U-A-R-D-A (6 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,840th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guarda is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “guard, ward, keeper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of guardar. With an accent, guardá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of guardar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Persona que cuida o custodia algo”.
What does guarda mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculineguard, ward, keeper
- 2
femininemasculineticket inspector
noun
- 1
feminineendpaper
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of guardar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Persona que cuida o custodia algo.
noun: 1. Cualquiera de las dos hojas de papel blanco que los encuadernadores ponen al principio y al final de los libros, después de haberlos cosido. También puede ser colorida, la cual una parte se pega sobre la tapa interior del cartón de la encuadernación y la otra sobre la superficie de la guarda blanca. 2. Acción de guardar, defender o custodiar. 3. Protector o guarnición de la empuñadura de una espada u otro tipo de arma blanca. 4. Tutela.
interjection: 1. Expresa temor o recelo. 2. Voz con que se avisa a otro se aparte del daño que le amenaza.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of guarda
- guardas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to guarda
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guarda in Spanish?
guarda appears 21 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).