Shield

Noun

 * 1) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
 * 1599, Knock go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame. &mdash; William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act III, Scene II, line 8.
 * 1786, The shields used by our Norman ancestors were the triangular or heater shield, the target or buckler, the roundel or rondache, and the pavais, pavache, or tallevas. &mdash; Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22.
 * 1) Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
 * 1592, Go muster men. My counsel is my shield; We must be brief when traitors brave the field. &mdash; William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 4, Scene 3, line 56.
 * 1) Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
 * 1611, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. The Holy Bible, King James Version, Genesis 15:1.
 * 1)  In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
 * 2)  The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
 * 3)  A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
 * 4)  A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
 * 5) A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
 * Bespotted as with shields of red and black. Spenser.
 * 1)  A coin, the old French crown, or écu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
 * 2)  A field of energy which protects or defends.
 * 3)  A police badge
 * The chief put something in his hand and Bosch looked down to see the gold detective's shield.
 * 1)  A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.

Hyponyms

 * Shield (1) types: buckler, pavache, pavais, rondache, roundel, tallevas, targe, and target.

Verb

 * 1) To protect, to defend.
 * 2) * 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
 * Shots rang out and a 15-year-old boy, shielding a woman from the line of fire, was killed.
 * 1)  to protect from the influence of

Adjectives for Shield
mirrored; brazen; gilded; caudal; serried: ponderous; bright; protecting; worthless.

Thesaurus
achievement, advocate, aegis, alerion, animal charge, annulet, apply to, argent, arm, arm guard, armament, armature, armor, armor plate, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, backstop, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blanket, blazon, blazonry, bless, block, body armor, bordure, broad arrow, buckler, buffer, bulletproof vest, bulwark, bumper, cadency mark, canopy, canton, chain armor, chain mail, chamber, champion, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, chitin, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, coat of arms, coat of mail, cockatrice, compass about, contraceptive, cope, copyright, coronet, cortex, cover, cover up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, crash helmet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, curtain, cushion, dashboard, defence, defend, device, difference, differencing, dodger, drape, drapery, eagle, eclipse, elytron, ensure, episperm, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, face mask, falcon, fence, fend, fender, fess, fess point, field, file, film, finger guard, flanch, flank, fleur-de-lis, foot guard, fret, fur, fuse, fusil, garland, goggles, governor, griffin, guarantee, guard, guard against, guardrail, guise, gules, gyron, habergeon, hand guard, handrail, hanging, harbor, hard hat, harness, hatchment, hauberk, haven, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, hood, house, housing, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, insulation, insure, interlock, keep, keep from harm, knee guard, knuckle guard, label, laminated glass, lay on, lay over, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, lion, lorica, lorication, lozenge, mail, make safe, mantle, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mask, metal, motto, mudguard, muffle, mullet, needles, nestle, nombril point, nose guard, obduce, obscure, occult, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, overlay, overspread, pad, padding, pale, pall, palladium, paly, panoply, patent, pean, pericarp, pheon, pilot, plate, plate armor, police, preventive, prophylactic, protect, protection, protective clothing, protective covering, protective umbrella, purpure, put on, quarter, quartering, register, ride shotgun for, roof, rose, sable, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, saltire, screen, scum, scutcheon, scute, scutum, seat belt, secure, security, shell, shelter, shin guard, shroud, spines, spread eagle, spread over, subordinary, suit of armor, sun helmet, superimpose, superpose, tenne, test, testa, thick skin, tincture, torse, tressure, umbrella, underwrite, unicorn, vair, veil, vert, vestment, ward, windscreen, windshield, wreath, yale

Etymology 1
From shelde:, from  scield:, from, from. Cognate with schild:,  Schild:,  skjold:,  skjöldur:,  scutum:,  sciath:,  škīda:,  skyda:.

Etymology 2
From scieldan:.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ترْس
 * Armenian:
 * Breton: skoed
 * Catalan: escut
 * Chinese: (dùn)
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 * Esperanto: ŝildo
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 * Indonesian: tameng
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 * Japanese: 盾 (たて, tate)
 * Latgalian:
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 * Latvian: vairogs
 * Lithuanian: skydas
 * Nahuatl: chimal
 * Norwegian:
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 * Old Norse: skjǫldr
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 * Scottish Gaelic: sgiath
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 * Swahili: ngao (noun 9/10)
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 * Arabic: وِقايَه، وِقاء
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 * Korean: 보호물; 보호자
 * Latvian: aizsargs; ekrāns; aizsegs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Polish: osłona
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 * Greek:
 * Romanian: protector, protectoare, scut, protectori
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Verb

 * Arabic: يَقي, يَحْمي
 * Chinese: (bǎohù)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: beskytte
 * Dutch: afschermen, beschermen, verdedigen
 * Estonian: kaitsma
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Indonesian: melindungi
 * Italian:
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 * Korean:
 * Latvian: aizsargāt
 * Lithuanian: saugoti
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: osłaniać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a proteja
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: chrániť
 * Slovene: ščititi
 * Spanish:
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 * Dutch: afschermen

Anagrams

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