ESCORT

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

Etymology

Noun

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.

Verb

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).

Synonyms

• accompany; attend.

• (go with someone as a partner): squire

Anagrams

• 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