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A protector is someone or something that keeps another person or thing from harm. A person can be a protector: a parent, a bodyguard, a friend who stands in front of you. A thing can be a protector too: the thin film on a phone screen, a surge protector that saves a computer from a shock of electricity, a pad that guards your teeth in sport. The word is clear and a little formal, but not stiff. Though actually, history also used Protector as a title — England once had a Lord Protector — which sounds grand. The everyday word is simply the one that protects.
保護者；也指起保護作用的物品（如螢幕保護貼）
組成From Middle English protectour, from Anglo-Norman protectour, protector and Latin prōtēctor, from prōtegō (“shield, protect”). By surface analysis, protect + -or, a person or thing that does the action. It displaced native Old English sċildend.
同家族的字
- protectthe verb this noun is built from
- protectionthe act or state of being kept safe
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
protectornoun/pɹəˈtɛktɚ/
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Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
- 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.
- They [the Lightners] were like Gods to us. Our protectors. Our creators. Those who gave us purpose... Then, one day we were all locked away in this prison... And the Lightners never returned.
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Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
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A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
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One who prevents interference.
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A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
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historicalOne having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
- My Lord Protector, ’tis his Highnes pleaſure, You do prepare to ride vnto S. Albons, / Where as the King and Queene do mean to Hawke.
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CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。