home guard

English Thesaurus

1. a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere (noun.group)

hypernym	:	guard,
definition	:	a military unit serving to protect some place or person (noun.group)

hyponym	:	yeomanry,
definition	:	a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army (noun.group)

domain category	:	armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine,
definition	:	the military forces of a nation (noun.group)