escort

Plural: escorts

Noun

• someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
• the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
• an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
• a participant in a date
• A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
• An accompanying person in such a group.
• A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
• A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
• An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
• Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
• A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.

Verb

Verb Forms: escorted, escorting, escorts

• To accompany someone or something for protection or guidance.
• accompany as an escort
  • "She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball"
• accompany or escort
• To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to
• To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
• To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
• To work as an escort (sex worker).

Examples

• He tried to ESCORT his best letters to a high-scoring spot on the Words With Friends board.

Synonyms

accompaniment, bodyguard, date, see, accompany, attend, squire

Anagrams of escort