Word Meanings - ESCORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, fr. L. ex out, quite + corrigere 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
Additional info about word: ESCORT
scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, fr. L. ex out, quite + corrigere 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ESCORT)
- Accompany
- Follow
- consort
- attend
- join
- coexist
- escort
- convoy
- Convoy
- Escort
- guard
- protection
- conduct
- Retinue
- Retainers
- attendant
- suite
- pomp
- followers
- tail
- satellites
- cortege
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ESCORT)
Related words: (words related to ESCORT)
- GUARDIAN
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., - GUARDIANSHIP
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. - CONSORTSHIP
The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond. - CONVOY
To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson. (more info) Etym: - CONSORT
A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, - GUARDIANESS
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl. - FOLLOWING EDGE
See ABOVE - GUARDIANLESS
Without a guardian. Marston. - GUARDER
One who guards. - GUARDANT
See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak. - GUARDS
A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards." - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - CONSORTABLE
Suitable for association or companionship. Sir H. Wotton. - COEXIST
To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with. Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so - COEXISTENT
Existing at the same time with another. -- n. - CONDUCTIVITY
The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces - GUARDHOUSE
A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up. - AVOIDLESS
Unavoidable; inevitable. - ABANDON
To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender; - PROTECTIONIST
One who favors protection. See Protection, 4. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - COUNTERGUARD
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire. - COGUARDIAN
A joint guardian. - UNAVOIDED
1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson. - VANGUARD
The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van. (more info) avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant, Ab-,Ante-, and Guard, - REBANISH
To banish again.