the state of protecting or being protected; a person or thing that protects
care, guardianship
Cases of word usage
1) without clothing, covering, protection or decoration (bare)
2) to inject a substance (a serum or vaccine) into (a person or animal) to produce a mild form of a disease in order to be a protection against it (inoculate)
3) (in olden times) a person punished by being placed outside the protection of the law; to make (something) illegal; ban (it) officially (outlaw)
4) giving protection (protective)
5) a person who protects; something made or designed to give protection (protector)
6) (a place giving) shelter or protection from trouble, danger etc (refuge)
7) clean; free from any dirt that might cause disease; of, concerned with, the protection of (public) health (sanitary)
8) (often movable) upright framework (some made to fold), used to divide a room; anything that is or can be used to give shelter or protection form observation, thee weather etc; a surface on which films, photographs, TV pictures are shown; a frame with fine wire netting to keep out insects (screen)
9) the condition of being kept safe; something that gives safety and protection (shelter)
10) a folding frame covered with cloth, used to shelter the person holding it from rain; any protection (umbrella)