Escort

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One or more persons accompanying another to guide, protect, or show honor.
  • noun. A man who is the companion of a woman, especially on a social occasion.
  • noun. A person, often a prostitute, who is hired to spend time with another as a companion.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One or more vehicles accompanying another vehicle to guide, protect, or honor its passengers.
  • noun. One or more warships or planes used to defend or protect other craft from enemy attack.
  • noun. The act of accompanying a person, conveyance, or group as an escort.
  • transitive verb. To accompany or guide, especially as an escort: synonym: accompany.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A protecting, guiding, or honorary guard in a progress of any kind; a person or a body of persons accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or compliment; especially, an armed guard, as a company of soldiers or a vessel or vessels of war, for the protection of travelers, merchant ships, munitions of war, treasure, or the like.
  • noun. Protection, safeguard, or guidance on a journey or an excursion: as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
  • To attend and guard on a journey or voyage; accompany; convoy, as a guard, protector, or guide, or by way of compliment: as, the guards escorted the Duke of Wellington; to escort a ship, a traveler, or a lady.
  • Synonyms To conduct, convoy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land
  • noun. A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
  • noun. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
  • noun. An accompanying person in a social gathering etc.
  • noun. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
  • noun. A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent.
  • verb. To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used especially with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
  • verb. accompany as an escort
  • noun. someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
  • noun. the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
  • verb. accompany or escort
  • noun. a participant in a date
  • Word Usage
    "MULLIN: I think we prefer the term escort, but, yes, she ` s sort."
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    accompany  
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    Court  Dort  Mort  Porte  Stuart  
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