escort
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kɔrt; noun
1.
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy: An escort of sailors accompanied the queen.
2.
an armed guard, as a body of soldiers or ships: The president traveled with a large escort of motorcycle police.
3.
a man or boy who accompanies a woman or girl in public, as to a social event.
4.
protection, safeguard, or guidance on a journey: to travel without escort.
verb (used with object)
5.
to attend or accompany as an escort.
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| escort | |
| —n | |
| 1. | one or more persons, soldiers, vehicles, etc, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour |
| 2. | a man or youth who accompanies a woman or girl: he was her escort for the evening |
| 3. | a. a person, esp a young woman, who may be hired to accompany another for entertainment, etc |
| b. (as modifier): an escort agency | |
| —vb | |
| 4. | (tr) to accompany or attend as an escort |
| [C16: from French escorte, from Italian scorta, from scorgere to guide, from Latin corrigere to straighten; see | |
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Word Origin & History
escort
1570s, from M.Fr. escorte, from It. scorta, lit. "a guiding," from scorgere "to guide," from V.L. *excorrigere, from ex- "out" + corrigere "set right" (see correct). The military sense is original; that of "person accompanying another to a social occasion" is 1936. The verb
is from 1708. Related: Escorted; escorting.
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Example sentences
He had em all scared that they offered to escort people to their cars.
But on the streets outside the governor's building, uniformed police venture out only under an army escort.
They should also not escort him outside the prison walls.
Armed police do sometimes escort groups home for a visit.
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