Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from 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.
from 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 abrothel , but with whom clients makeappointments ; acall 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.
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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MULLIN: I think we prefer the term escort, but, yes, she ` s sort.
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Why do they use the word escort and then finish the article talking about the sex trade.
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In the Twin Cities my escort is always a young man named Tim Hedges.
The Mall of America 2002
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In the Twin Cities my escort is always a young man named Tim Hedges.
The Mall of America 2002
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Hey Vitter – Your "escort" is on line one and wants to know what hotel room your in and the Grand Wizard is on line two wanting to know if you can make the cross burning tonight.
Vitter defends Southern influence in GOP, slams Voinovich 2009
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In any event, the cemetery, in the tiny hamlet of Sidney Center, was never a secret -- and couldn't have been: When the first body arrived in November, 2009, it had a 3-car escort from the Passaic, New Jersey Police Department, which necessarily told local authorities it was arriving.
Andrew Reinbach: Tiny Upstate New York Town Wants Local Muslims to Dig Up Their Cemetery Andrew Reinbach 2010
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In any event, the cemetery, in the tiny hamlet of Sidney Center, was never a secret -- and couldn't have been: When the first body arrived in November, 2009, it had a 3-car escort from the Passaic, New Jersey Police Department, which necessarily told local authorities it was arriving.
Andrew Reinbach: Tiny Upstate New York Town Wants Local Muslims to Dig Up Their Cemetery Andrew Reinbach 2010
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In any event, the cemetery, in the tiny hamlet of Sidney Center, was never a secret -- and couldn't have been: When the first body arrived in November, 2009, it had a 3-car escort from the Passaic, New Jersey Police Department, which necessarily told local authorities it was arriving.
Andrew Reinbach: Tiny Upstate New York Town Wants Local Muslims to Dig Up Their Cemetery Andrew Reinbach 2010
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In any event, the cemetery, in the tiny hamlet of Sidney Center, was never a secret -- and couldn't have been: When the first body arrived in November, 2009, it had a 3-car escort from the Passaic, New Jersey Police Department, which necessarily told local authorities it was arriving.
Andrew Reinbach: Tiny Upstate New York Town Wants Local Muslims to Dig Up Their Cemetery Andrew Reinbach 2010
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In any event, the cemetery, in the tiny hamlet of Sidney Center, was never a secret -- and couldn't have been: When the first body arrived in November, 2009, it had a 3-car escort from the Passaic, New Jersey Police Department, which necessarily told local authorities it was arriving.
Andrew Reinbach: Tiny Upstate New York Town Wants Local Muslims to Dig Up Their Cemetery Andrew Reinbach 2010
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