What's the difference between guardsman and guardsmen?
Guardsman
Definition:
(n.) One who guards; a guard.
(n.) A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards.
Example Sentences:
(1) Somebody had hung a guardsman's bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub.
(2) Jacqui Janes, the mother of Grenadier Guardsman Jamie Janes, who was killed in Afghanistan on 5 October, received the letter days after her son's death.
(3) Maddan said: "What he didn't say was he had been involved in a most dramatic rescue … saved the life of one guardsman and showed his hard professionalism, awesome strength and the deep concern for his guardsmen that became his hallmark."
(4) The former Welsh guardsman, aged 50, was badly burned on board the Sir Galahad supply ship when it was bombed at Bluff Cove in the Falklands war in 1982.
(5) Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook could not explain why he stabbed the boy in the kidneys in an unprovoked attack when he was hungover after a heavy session drinking vodka.
(6) Like many of his peers, the 73-year-old former Scots Guardsman remains fiercely proud of his Scottish identity – yet slightly ambivalent about the prospect of his homeland and his adopted land going their separate ways.
(7) The soldiers – who were tonight named by the Ministry of Defence as Warrant Officer Darren Chant, Sergeant Matthew Telford, Guardsman James Major, Acting Corporal Steven Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith – were killed when an Afghan policeman opened fire at a checkpoint in the Nad-e'Ali district yesterday.
(8) Three of those charged are Sergeant Carle Selman, 38, of the Scots Guards, Guardsman Martin McGing, 21, and Guardsman Joseph McCleary, 23, both of the Irish Guards.
(9) The gaffe followed a series of front-page articles in Rupert Murdoch's tabloid taking the prime minister to task for a series of mistakes, including spelling Janes's surname as "James" in a condolence letter over the death of her Grenadier Guardsman son Jamie Janes in Afghanistan.
(10) Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was suffering from a hangover after a heavy vodka drinking session when he bayoneted the boy, who was running an errand.
(11) It was thus inevitable that Brown should be blamed for sending Guardsman Jamie Janes to war and for keeping him dangerously exposed and un-reinforced.
(12) The defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth, praised Guardsman Janes's "exemplary service".
(13) "Earlier this week on a My Sun discussion block, the surname of Jacqui Janes, the mother of guardsman Jamie Janes, was spelled incorrectly," said the Sun in an online apology .
(14) The court martial heard that the boy was running an errand when he was bayoneted by Grenadier guardsman Daniel Crook, who had a hangover from a heavy vodka drinking session.
(15) The Ministry of Defence named the five soldiers who died in the attack as Warrant Officer Darren Chant, Sergeant Matthew Telford, Guardsman James Major, Acting Corporal Steven Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith.
(16) The 40-year-old, born in Walthamstow, north-east London, died alongside Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, and Guardsman James Major, 18, also from the Grenadier Guards; and Corporal Steven Boote, 22, and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, from the Royal Military Police.
(17) Guardsman Janes died in the way lived, "protecting his friends from danger", Major Richard Green, his company commander, said.
(18) Scott Brown, a truck-driving National Guardsman who was virtually unknown even in Massachusetts a few weeks ago, beat Martha Coakley, the state attorney general who had expected to inherit the seat, by 52% to 47%.
(19) "I was very sorry to learn of the death of Guardsman Jamie Janes, a soldier who, I'm told, had given exemplary service since joining the army at 16 and had a promising career ahead of him," he said.
(20) Relatives and friends of Guardsman Major, the youngest of those killed, wore "RIP Jimmy" T-shirts.
Guardsmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Guardsman
Example Sentences:
(1) The MoD says the minibus failed to stop when the soldiers signalled for it to do so, and the guardsmen shot at it.
(2) 3, six US Coast Guardsmen were tested hourly for four consecutive days, two days at dockside and two days at sea.
(3) Maddan said: "What he didn't say was he had been involved in a most dramatic rescue … saved the life of one guardsman and showed his hard professionalism, awesome strength and the deep concern for his guardsmen that became his hallmark."
(4) To find ways of sharing their enthusiasm and gifts with our communities, above all in works of mercy and concern for others?” Mother of disabled child kissed by pope applauds Francis's 'love for everybody' Read more At the barricades, the ebullient crowd mingled with police, national guardsmen in fatigues, and wary agents from the secret service and FBI, in suits save for telltale holsters, badges and microphones.
(5) This year President Bush stationed 6,000 National Guardsmen along the border and the US Congress vowed to build a 700-mile wall to keep illegal immigrants out.
(6) You can see the border patrol and National Guardsmen keeping watch.
(7) Ahmadinejad has moved to retire guardsmen, many with years of experience, and replace them with cadres of young, ideologically committed and loyal recruits.
(8) Rosenthal’s photo captured a single moment in the 36-day battle during which more than 6,500 US servicemen made the ultimate sacrifice for our Nation and it is representative of the more than 70,000 US Marines, Sailors, Soldiers and Coast Guardsmen that took part in the battle.
(9) Since the account of the villagers and five Scots Guardsmen had never been the subject of a "definitive inquiry", it was "now impossible to reach any definitive conclusion as to how the deaths of the inhabitants came about".
(10) Wandering on the crowd's fringes, I talked to city cops and National Guardsmen – the Pentagon had mobilized almost 20,000 troops for the feared riot – who were white-faced scared to the point of hysteria.
(11) An outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis occurred in a unit of 608 Puerto Rican national guardsmen conducting jungle warfare training in the Panama Canal Area in July 1984.
(12) The House speaker, Paul Ryan, and leading Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were among the politicians gathered, alongside military guardsmen on the steps of the East Front of the Capitol as the Obamas and Trumps emerged back into the outdoors.
(13) "His experience and cool head reassured the younger, less experienced guardsmen and set their minds at ease as they began to come to terms with the task at hand."
(14) Spear-carrying guardsmen, warriors bedecked in chainmail, gleaming golden helmets and even a few fake moustaches thrown in for good measure.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The presidents with guardsmen dressed in Turkish warriors’ costumes.
(16) Many guardsmen have been at the forefront of the reform movement, still others have professed religious loyalties to ayatollahs other than the hardline cabal currently in power.
(17) Photographs in the Ukrainian media showed national guardsmen posing in front of a Ukrainian flag flying above what appeared to be Slavyansk city hall.
(18) As I check into a hotel in Tucson, Arizona, scores of National Guardsmen from Kentucky are having a karaoke session.
(19) Slay said that guardsmen – who have been authorised to assist in policing protests in the region after governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency on Monday – would be posted at 45 sites to protect residents and businesses.
(20) Many guardsmen today find themselves defending an Islamic revolution they simply no longer recognise.