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ESCORT

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

accompaniment; escort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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 2

Meaning:

Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person

Synonyms:

bodyguard; escort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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 3

Meaning:

A participant in a date

Example:

his date never stopped talking

Synonyms:

date; escort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

Sense 4

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accompany as an escort

Example:

She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

Example:

I'll see you to the door

Synonyms:

escort; see

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

accompany (go or travel along with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

I think, Watson, that in your medical capacity, you might wait upon Miss Smith and tell her that if she is sufficiently recovered, we shall be happy to escort her to her mother’s home.

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

Miss Tilney, understanding in part her friend's curiosity to see the house, soon revived the subject; and her father being, contrary to Catherine's expectations, unprovided with any pretence for further delay, beyond that of stopping five minutes to order refreshments to be in the room by their return, was at last ready to escort them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

While she was gone Mr. Rushworth arrived, escorting his mother, who came to be civil and to shew her civility especially, in urging the execution of the plan for visiting Sotherton, which had been started a fortnight before, and which, in consequence of her subsequent absence from home, had since lain dormant.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

By my faith, sirs, he continued, half turning in his saddle to address his escort, unless my woodcraft is sadly at fault, it is a stag of six tines and the finest that we have roused this journey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy was ordered off at once, and provided with something to ward off danger, she departed in great state, with Jo and Laurie as escort.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Might I not escort her to this place?

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

Instead of that he took two tickets for the theatre, escorted his fiancée halfway there, and then suddenly disappeared.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When she came there of an evening, she always shrunk from accepting his escort home, and ran away with me instead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I think, Inspector,” Holmes remarked, “that you would do well to telegraph for an escort, as, if my calculations prove to be correct, you may have a particularly dangerous prisoner to convey to the county jail.”

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

To anything like a permanence of abode, or limitation of society, Henry Crawford had, unluckily, a great dislike: he could not accommodate his sister in an article of such importance; but he escorted her, with the utmost kindness, into Northamptonshire, and as readily engaged to fetch her away again, at half an hour's notice, whenever she were weary of the place.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)