ESCORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does escort mean? 

• ESCORT (noun)
  The noun ESCORT has 4 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 date

  Familiarity information: ESCORT used as a noun is uncommon.

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

1. accompany as an escort

2. accompany or escort

  Familiarity information: ESCORT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESCORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bodyguard; escort

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

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

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

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

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

beefeater; yeoman; yeoman of the guard (officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

accompaniment; escort

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

protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)

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

convoy (the act of escorting while in transit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An attendant who is employed to accompany someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting 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 guard (a ceremonial escort for the (regimental) colors)

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

minder (someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors)

guide; usher (someone employed to conduct others)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A participant in a date

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

date; escort

Context example:

his date never stopped talking

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

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

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

blind date (a participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them))

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

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

Derivation:

escort (accompany as an escort)

• ESCORT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they escort ... he / she / it escorts
Past simple: escorted   
Past participle: escorted   
-ing form: escorting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accompany as an escort

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball

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

accompany (go or travel along with)

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

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

safeguard (escort safely)

convoy (escort in transit)

chaperon; chaperone (accompany as a chaperone)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

escort (a participant in a date)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Accompany or escort

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

escort; see

Context example:

I'll see you to the door

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

accompany (go 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 idea.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With this my aunt tied her head up in a handkerchief, with which she was accustomed to make a bundle of it on such occasions; and I escorted her home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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

(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 by the two gentlemen, walked into the room; and Mrs. Elton seemed to think it as much her duty as Mrs. Weston's to receive them.

(Emma, by 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, by Jane Austen)

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

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

The obvious thing is to escort them home, if we 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 Judge’s sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge’s daughters, on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the Judge’s feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge’s grandsons on his back, 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 Call of the Wild, by Jack London)