If I am your guardian, what does that make you to me?
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6“Daily Mail” perhaps?– Konrad RudolphCommented Mar 9, 2012 at 10:08
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4Inverse? I think you mean "complement". The "inverse" of a guardian would be something like "stalker".– Hexagon TilingCommented Mar 9, 2012 at 23:15
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Your dependent or ward (credit to amcnabb), both of which are legal entities, but both of which apply outside the legal sphere.
Dependent connotes a relationship in which the guardian is both provider and protector, whereas ward implies that the guardian is the protector, but not much else.
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Ward is the one I was looking for, that I have read in books. Commented Nov 30, 2017 at 21:10
I like charge:
: a person or thing committed to the care of another
from wiktionary:
The scope of someone's responsibility.
The child was in the nanny's charge.
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answered Mar 8, 2012 at 17:38
A traditional word for this would be "ward" (for example, in Dicken's Bleak House).
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3The first example that occurs to me is Dick Grayson, aka Robin, who was always called Bruce Wayne's, aka Batman's, "ward" in the old comic books.– JayCommented Mar 8, 2012 at 19:04