Thesaurus: escort

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1. n. 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.
2. n. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
3. n. To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
4. n. someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
5. n. the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
6. n. an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
7. n. a participant in a date
8. v. accompany as an escort
9. v. conduct someone someplace
10. 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. To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon. Syn. -- To accompany; attend. See Accompany.
11. To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany assafeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- usedesp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escorta public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
12. n:42/v:58 n. the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them n. an attendant who is employed to accompany someone v. accompany as an escort