Synonyms for protector
prəˈtɛk tərpro·tec·tor

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1. protectornoun

   Synonyms:
   sentry, guard

2. protectornoun

   Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on his own initiative.

   Synonyms:
   guard, sentry

3. protectornoun

   A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.

   Synonyms:
   sentry, guard

4. protectornoun

   One who prevents interference.

   Synonyms:
   sentry, guard

5. protectornoun

   A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.

   I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change. Jon Huntsman, Jr.

   Synonyms:
   guard, sentry

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. defender, guardian, protector, shieldernoun

   a person who cares for persons or property

   Synonyms:
   guardian, shielder, defender, withstander

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1. protectornoun

   Synonyms:
   guardian, champion, defender

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1. protectornoun

   Synonyms:
   defender, guardian, patron

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1. List of paraphrases for "protector":

   saver, protecteur, protective, shield, overload, protectant, patron, defender, guardian, surcharge

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1. District Attorney Janet DiFiore:

   Throughout his five years, Garnett Spears was forced to suffer through repeated hospitalizations, unneeded surgical procedures and ultimately poisoning with salt, all at the hands of the one person who should have been his ultimate protector: his mother, using the child’s 'illnesses' to self aggrandize herself, her actions directly lead to her son’s tortured death.

2. Plato:

   The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.

3. Lawrence Goldstone:

   If you look at the history of this country from Supreme Court until now, for almost our entire history it has been conservative, it has been a protector of a certain status quo. It has certainly been protective of white rule.

4. Austin Tice:

   He loved being the big brother – the protector of his sisters and the adviser to his younger brothers, he very much wanted people to reach into themselves to be the best they could be.

5. Pope Francis on Saturday:

   Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.