escort, accompaniment
(noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
bodyguard, escort
(noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
date, escort
(noun) a participant in a date; “his date never stopped talking”
escort
(noun) an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
escort
(verb) accompany as an escort; “She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball”
see, escort
(verb) accompany or escort; “I’ll see you to the door”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
escort (plural escorts)
A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
An accompanying person in such a group.
A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
(somewhat euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent.
escort (third-person singular simple present escorts, present participle escorting, simple past and past participle escorted)
To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to
To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
• accompany; attend.
• (go with someone as a partner): squire
• Coster, Ectors, Tresco, corset, coster, recost, rectos, scoter, scrote, sector
Source: Wiktionary
Es"cort, n. Etym: [F. escorte, It. scorta a guard or guide, fr. scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, fr. L. ex out, quite + corrigere to correct, set right. See Correct.]
1. 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. The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. Burke.
2. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
Es*cort", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Escorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Escorting.] Etym: [Cf. F. escorter, It. scortare. See Escort, n.]
Definition: 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.
Syn.
– To accompany; attend. See Accompany.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
