escort
Meaning of escort
- a person, vehicle, or group accompanying another for protection or as a mark of rank.
a police escort
he was driven away under armed escort
- accompany (someone or something) somewhere as an escort.
he escorted her back to her hotel
late 16th century (originally denoting a body of armed men escorting travellers): from French escorte (noun), escorter (verb), from Italian scorta, feminine past participle of scorgere ‘to conduct, guide’, based on Latin ex- ‘out of’ + corrigere ‘set right’ (see correct).
Information about escort
- The plural form of escort is: escorts.
- Languages in which escort is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of escort
es-cort
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- escort is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
escort synonyms
Meaning bodyguard:
Meaning accompaniment:
Meaning date:
Meaning see:
Meaning a person who keeps watch, especially a soldier or other person assigned to protect a person or to control access to a place:
Meaning a person or thing that protects someone or something:
Meaning a measure taken to protect someone or something or to prevent something undesirable:
Meaning a person who defends someone or something:
Meaning a person who has responsibility for taking care of or protecting something:
Meaning an assistant to an important person; a servant or courtier:
Meaning a person who shows the way to others, especially one employed to show tourists around places of interest:
Meaning a person who accompanies and looks after another person or group of people:
Meaning a servant, especially one who has worked for a person or family for a long time:
Meaning an assistant to an important person, especially a political leader:
Meaning a person who ranks below a senior person:
Meaning an older woman acting as a governess and companion in charge of girls, especially in a Spanish family; a chaperone:
Meaning an officer of the British royal household who attends or assists members of the royal family:
Meaning a man of high social standing who owns and lives on an estate in a rural area, especially the chief landowner in such an area:
Meaning a group of people attending or surrounding an important person:
Meaning a group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person:
Meaning a group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank:
Meaning a series of connected railway carriages or wagons moved by a locomotive or by integral motors:
Meaning a vehicle equipped for living in, typically towed by a car and used for holidays:
Meaning the action of protecting, or the state of being protected:
Meaning a group of ships or vehicles travelling together, typically one accompanied by armed troops, warships, or other vehicles for protection:
Meaning a person whose job it is to look after someone or something:
Meaning lead or guide (someone) to or around a particular place:
Meaning go somewhere with (someone) as a companion or escort:
Meaning cause (a person or animal) to go with one by holding them by the hand, a halter, a rope, etc. while moving forward:
Meaning show or guide (someone) somewhere:
Meaning guide or direct in a particular direction:
Meaning accompany or guide (someone) to a specified place:
Meaning tell or show (someone) how to get somewhere:
Meaning guide the movement or course of:
Meaning keep safe from harm or injury:
Meaning resist an attack made on (someone or something); protect from harm or danger:
Meaning be the partner of:
Meaning take or go with (someone or something) to a place:
Translation of escort
- Spanish: acompañar, escolta, escoltar, escort
- French: accompagner, escorte, escorter
- Portuguese: acompanhar, escoltar, acompanhante
- Italian: accompagnare, scortare, accompagnatore
- German: begleiten, Eskorte, eskortieren, Callgirl
Anagrams of escort
corset, Cortes, cortes, Coster, coster, croset, recost, rectos, Scoter, scoter, sector, Sterco
Words that rhyme with escort
Cort, cort, Azmacort, Cetacort, Dermacort, Dexacort, Kenacort, Magnacort, Nutracort, Paracort, Synacort, Texacort, Triacort, firmacort, intracort, lanacort, lisacort, magnacort, oxazacort, sigmacort, Eldecort, Gynecort, Penecort, Acticort, Anticort, Bacticort, Dricort, Epicort, Pulmicort, Symbicort, Topicort, Uticort, ethamicort, loticort, meusicort, permicort, pulmicort, summicort, Aristocort, Colocort, Cyclocort, Entocort, Hydrocort, Lexocort, Proctocort, Rhinocort, aristocort, pannocort, primocort, proctocort