Associations to the word «Minder»

Wiktionary

MINDER, noun. One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper
MINDER, noun. (British) A personal bodyguard.

Dictionary definition

MINDER, noun. Someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors; "I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us".
MINDER, noun. A person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope