What Does It Mean to Be an Escort

ESCORT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does escort mean?

• ESCORT (noun)
The noun ESCORT has four senses:

1. someone who escorts and protects a prominent person

2. the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them

3. an attendant who is employed to accompany someone

4. a participant in a appointment

Familiarity data: ESCORT used as a noun is uncommon.

• ESCORT (verb)
The verb ESCORT has 2 senses:

1. accompany every bit an escort

2. accompany or escort

Familiarity information: ESCORT used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ESCORT (noun)

Sense 1

Pregnant:

Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

babysitter; escort

Hypernyms ("escort" is a kind of...):

defender; guardian; protector; shielder (a person who cares for persons or belongings)

Hyponyms (each of the post-obit is a kind of "escort"):

outrider (an escort who rides ahead (equally a member of the vanguard))

Praetorian; Praetorian Guard (a member of the Praetorian Guard)

beefeater; yeoman; yeoman of the baby-sit (officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch)

Holonyms ("escort" is a member of...):

guard (a armed forces unit serving to protect some place or person)

Sense two

Meaning:

The act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or deportment

Synonyms:

accompaniment; escort

Hypernyms ("escort" is a kind of...):

protection (the action of protecting someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "escort"):

convoy (the act of escorting while in transit)

Sense iii

Significant:

An attendant who is employed to back-trail someone

Classified nether:

Nouns cogent people

Hypernyms ("escort" is a kind of...):

attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "escort"):

color baby-sit (a ceremonial escort for the (regimental) colors)

guard of honor; honor guard (an escort for a distinguished invitee or for the casket at a military funeral)

minder (someone (normally in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to lookout over strange visitors)

guide; usher (someone employed to bear others)

Sense iv

Meaning:

A participant in a appointment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

engagement; escort

Context instance:

his date never stopped talking

Hypernyms ("escort" is a kind of...):

associate; companion; comrade; familiar; young man (a friend who is frequently in the company of another)

Hyponyms (each of the post-obit is a kind of "escort"):

blind date (a participant in a bullheaded date (someone yous meet for the kickoff fourth dimension when you lot take a date with them))

Holonyms ("escort" is a fellow member of...):

appointment; date; engagement (a meeting arranged in advance)

Derivation:

escort (accompany as an escort)

• ESCORT (verb)

Nowadays simple: I / y'all / nosotros / they escort ... he / she / it escorts
By simple: escorted
Past participle: escorted
-ing form: escorting

Sense 1

Significant:

Accompany as an escort

Classified nether:

Verbs of walking, flying, pond

Context case:

She asked her older brother to escort her to the brawl

Hypernyms (to "escort" is 1 way to...):

accompany (become or travel forth with)

Troponyms (each of the following is one style to "escort"):

squire (nourish upon as a squire; serve as a squire)

safeguard (escort safely)

convoy (escort in transit)

chaperon; chaperone (accompany as a chaperone)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----southward something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

escort (a participant in a date)

Sense two

Meaning:

Accompany or escort

Classified nether:

Verbs of walking, flight, pond

Synonyms:

escort; see

Context example:

I'll come across you to the door

Hypernyms (to "escort" is i style to...):

back-trail (become or travel along with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Context examples

She was just recovering from one of these attacks when she was prevailed upon to escort Miss Crocker to a lecture, and in return for her virtue was rewarded with a new thought.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With this my aunt tied her head up in a handkerchief, with which she was accepted to brand a packet of it on such occasions; and I escorted her habitation.

(David Copperfield, past Charles Dickens)

I came in by train this forenoon, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I might find a doctor, a worthy beau very kindly escorted me hither.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She believed that it was out of dread of him that Lady Frances had accepted the escort of the Shlessingers to London.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Bates and Miss Fairfax, escorted past the 2 gentlemen, walked into the room; and Mrs. Elton seemed to think information technology as much her duty as Mrs. Weston'due south to receive them.

(Emma, past Jane Austen)

Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret, escorted by Mr Elliot and Colonel Wallis, who had happened to arrive nearly at the same instant, advanced into the room.

(Persuasion, past Jane Austen)

He got engaged to her when traveling last winter, and she came down to be introduced to his people, with her brother every bit escort.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The obvious thing is to escort them home, if nosotros knew where their home was.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I found myself strangely afraid of this woman I was escorting aft.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the Approximate'due south sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge'south daughters, on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the Gauge'due south feet earlier the roaring library fire; he carried the Gauge's grandsons on his dorsum, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches.

(The Phone call of the Wild, by Jack London)

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