escort
[noun es-kawrt; verb ih-skawrt]
- 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.
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- to attend or accompany as an escort.
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Origin of escort
Synonyms
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5. See accompany.
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Contemporary Examples
Escorting is big business on the straight side too, only more of a hush-hush operation.
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November 1, 2014
The aircraft were likely escorting friendly fighters and bombers, in addition to the strike on the command-and-control center.
Those include giving paid private Skype shows sold over Twitter, escorting, and more.
A few weeks into escorting, he had what he gingerly calls a “rough experience” with a client.
Katie Klabusich, who has volunteered for years escorting pregnant women into clinics, told me a far different story.
Historical Examples
A thousand knights were escorting a man who sat his horse proudly and like a hero.
The Chinese Fairy BookVarious
Do you not see that it is the wounded knight we met that day you were escorting me to Urbino?
Love-at-ArmsRaphael Sabatini
The way things were going he might not be escorting at all within a few weeks.
A Yankee Flier Over BerlinAl Avery
Madam, may I have the privilege of escorting you to the head of the table?
Miss Pat at SchoolPemberton Ginther
Presently the two of them were escorting the Italian woman toward the foot of the cliff.
PathfinderAlan Douglas
escort
- 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
- a person, esp a young woman, who may be hired to accompany another for entertainment, etc
- (as modifier)an escort agency
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- (tr) to accompany or attend as an escort
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Word Origin
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.
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escort
v.
1708, from escort (n.); social sense is from 1890. Related: Escorted; escorting.
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