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escort

[noun es-kawrt; verb ih-skawrt]
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noun

a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy: An escort of sailors accompanied the queen.
an armed guard, as a body of soldiers or ships: The president traveled with a large escort of motorcycle police.
a man or boy who accompanies a woman or girl in public, as to a social event.
protection, safeguard, or guidance on a journey: to travel without escort.

verb (used with object)

to attend or accompany as an escort.

Origin of escort

1570–80; < French < Italian scorta, derivative of scorgere to conduct < Vulgar Latin *excorrigere. See ex-1, correct
Related formsun·es·cort·ed, adjectivewell-es·cort·ed, adjective

Synonyms for escort

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4. convoy. 5. conduct, usher, squire, chaperon, take, guide.

Synonym study

5. See accompany.
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Related Words for escorting

protect, accompany, bring, drag, usher, carry, guide, steer, shepherd, convoy, attend, lead, show, chaperon, company, squire, direct, bear, see, conduct

Examples from the Web for escorting

Contemporary Examples of escorting

Historical Examples of escorting

  • A thousand knights were escorting a man who sat his horse proudly and like a hero.

  • Do you not see that it is the wounded knight we met that day you were escorting me to Urbino?

    Love-at-Arms

    Raphael Sabatini

  • The way things were going he might not be escorting at all within a few weeks.

  • Madam, may I have the privilege of escorting you to the head of the table?

    Miss Pat at School

    Pemberton Ginther

  • Presently the two of them were escorting the Italian woman toward the foot of the cliff.

    Pathfinder

    Alan Douglas

British Dictionary definitions for escorting

escort

noun (ˈɛskɔːt)

one or more persons, soldiers, vehicles, etc, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour
a man or youth who accompanies a woman or girlhe was her escort for the evening
  1. a person, esp a young woman, who may be hired to accompany another for entertainment, etc
  2. (as modifier)an escort agency

verb (ɪsˈkɔːt)

(tr) to accompany or attend as an escort

Word Origin for escort

C16: from French escorte, from Italian scorta, from scorgere to guide, from Latin corrigere to straighten; see correct
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Word Origin and History for escorting

escort

n.

1570s, in military sense, from Middle French escorte (16c.), from Italian scorta, literally "a guiding," from scorgere "to guide," from Vulgar Latin *excorrigere, from ex- "out" (see ex-) + corrigere "set right" (see correct). The sense of "person accompanying another to a social occasion" is 1936.

escort

v.

1708, from escort (n.); social sense is from 1890. Related: Escorted; escorting.

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