escort
Americannoun
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a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy.
An escort of sailors accompanied the queen.
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an armed guard, as a body of soldiers or ships.
The president traveled with a large escort of motorcycle police.
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a man or boy who accompanies a woman or girl in public, as to a social event.
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a person, especially a woman female escort, but sometimes a man male escort, who is paid to go on a date with a client, and usually to engage in sex acts for money.
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protection, safeguard, or guidance on a journey.
to travel without escort.
- Synonyms:
- convoy
verb (used with object)
noun
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one or more persons, soldiers, vehicles, etc, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour
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a man or youth who accompanies a woman or girl
he was her escort for the evening
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a person, esp a young woman, who may be hired to accompany another for entertainment, etc
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( as modifier )
an escort agency
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verb
Related Words
See accompany.
Other Word Forms
- unescorted adjective
- well-escorted adjective
Etymology
Origin of escort
First recorded in 1570–80; from French, from Italian scorta, derivative of scorgere “to conduct, guide,” from Vulgar Latin excorrigere (unrecorded); ex- 1, correct
Example Sentences
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They blocked the doors and remained there for about two hours, until police escorted them out.
From BBC
He and his classmates stayed there until the police escorted them out.
From BBC
"We got tables and barricaded the doors" for over two hours, Darian said, until police arrived to escort them out of the school.
From BBC
He said he stayed in lockdown for more than two hours when police stormed in, ordering everyone to put their hands up before escorting them out of the school.
From Barron's
The U.S. sent a warship and aircraft to escort the ship to a port in Bahrain.
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