Noun

1. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on his own initiative.
2. A mechanism which is designed to protect.
3. One who prevents interference.
4. 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.

Related terms

• protect
• protection
• protectoral
• protectorate
• protectress

• protectorship
• protectory
• protectrice
• Lord Protector (also shortened to protector)