Definitions for Protector

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Protector pro·tec·tor

Spelling: [pruh-tek-ter]

IPA: /prəˈtɛk tər/

Protector is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in Protector (ceooprrtt).

Definitions for Protector

noun

1. a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
2. English History. a person in charge of the kingdom during the sovereign's minority, incapacity, or absence. (initial capital letter). Also called Lord Protector. the title of the head of the government during the period of the Protectorate, held by Oliver Cromwell (1653–58) and by Richard Cromwell, his son (1658–59).

Origin of Protector

1325-75; Late Latin (see protect, -tor); replacing Middle English protectour Middle French

Examples for Protector

The mother insisted that at her core Barnes was a protector.

She clung to him so that he could not help feeling himself her protector.

As my mother, my protector, stayed with me for my ear operation when I was five, now I stay with Father.

So young, so courted, so tempted as she must be—and with such a protector!

Donald had from the start constituted himself her protector in a lordly way.

Carl Winslow (Reginald VelJohnson), Family Matters Cop, father, and protector of Steve Urkel.

“I recognized Dave Schultz as my protector,”' du Pont said in the March interview.

We stand by our responsibilities as a protector of human rights.

Is such the faith that Cora Munro would exact from her protector?

But come, you are doubtless not aware that I am the protector of Lourdes here at Rome.