Escort
['eskɔːt] or ['ɛskɔt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them.
(noun.) an attendant who is employed to accompany someone.
(verb.) accompany as an escort; 'She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball'.
Edited by Barton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
(n.) 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; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
Typist: Toni
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Convoy, guard, conduct.[2]. Protection, safeguard, safe conduct.
v. a. Attend, accompany, convoy, conduct, wait on, go along with.
Edited by Josie
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONVOY]
Checked by Elisha
Definition
n. a body of men or a single man accompanying any one on a journey for protection guidance or merely courtesy: attendance.—v.t. Escōrt′ to attend as guide or guard.
Checker: Roderick
Examples
- Another is the recommendation to the city and the nation that it should protect arriving immigrants, and if necessary escort them to their homes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My object in having them sent to Belle Plain was to use them as an escort to our supply trains. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The rosy hours were thus beguiled until it was time for Bella to have Pa's escort back. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Therefore, Jew, I will see thee safe under some fitting escort. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Why did you not wait for me, sir, to escort me downstairs? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Their escort strolled back again, and reported. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The escort and the universal watchfulness had completely isolated him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- My knowledge of their customs lent colour to the belief that he was but being escorted to the audience chamber to have sentence passed upon him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was escorted into the city with great pomp and ceremony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whom Defarge escorted to the top of the stairs, and, leaving seated there, returned. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I was escorted as far as Bethlehem, where I rested a few days to recover from the fatigue I had undergone. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mr. March proudly escorted Mrs. Laurence. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The escorted governed his own horse, but a loose line was attached to his bridle, the end of which one of the patriots kept girded round his wrist. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Besides them, there was but one other passenger--a young lady, whom a gentlemanly, though languid-looking man escorted. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Say to him that Dator Xodar, with officers and men, escorting two prisoners, would be transported to the gardens of Issus beside the Golden Temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They were strengthened into certainty when I beheld the Aged enter at a side door, escorting a lady. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Our cavalry charged in upon a body of theirs which was escorting a wagon train in order to get it past our left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He attacked and drove away their cavalry which was escorting wagons to the west, capturing and burning 180 wagons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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