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English Dictionary: escort	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for escort
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
escort n someone who escorts and protects a prominent person [syn: bodyguard, escort] the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them Synonym(s): escort, accompaniment an attendant who is employed to accompany someone a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking" Synonym(s): date, escort v accompany as an escort; "She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball" accompany or escort; "I'll see you to the door" Synonym(s): see, escort
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Escort \Escort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Escorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Escorting}.] [Cf. F. escorter, It. scortare. See {Escort}, 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. Syn: To accompany; attend. See {Accompany}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Escort \Es"cort\, n. [F. escorte, It. scorta a guard or guide, fr. scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, fr. L. ex out, quite + corrigere to correct, set right. See {Correct}.] 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.