escorts

Meaning of escorts

plural noun
  1. 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
verb, 3rd person present
  1. 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 escorts

  • The singular form of escorts is: escort.
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Hyphenation of escorts

es-corts

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • escorts is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

escorts synonyms

Meaning a person who keeps watch, especially a soldier or other person assigned to protect a person or to control access to a place:

guard

Meaning a person or group of people employed to escort and protect an important or famous person:

bodyguard

Meaning a person or thing that protects someone or something:

protector

Meaning a measure taken to protect someone or something or to prevent something undesirable:

safeguard

Meaning a person who defends someone or something:

defender

Meaning a person who has responsibility for taking care of or protecting something:

custodian

Meaning an assistant to an important person; a servant or courtier:

attendant

Meaning a person who shows the way to others, especially one employed to show tourists around places of interest:

guide

Meaning a person who accompanies and looks after another person or group of people:

chaperone

Meaning a servant, especially one who has worked for a person or family for a long time:

retainer

Meaning an assistant to an important person, especially a political leader:

aide

Meaning a person who ranks below a senior person:

assistant

Meaning an older woman acting as a governess and companion in charge of girls, especially in a Spanish family; a chaperone:

duenna

Meaning an officer of the British royal household who attends or assists members of the royal family:

equerry

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:

squire

Meaning a group of people attending or surrounding an important person:

entourage

Meaning a group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person:

retinue

Meaning a group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank:

suite

Meaning a series of connected railway carriages or wagons moved by a locomotive or by integral motors:

train

Meaning a vehicle equipped for living in, typically towed by a car and used for holidays:

caravan

Meaning the action of protecting, or the state of being protected:

protection

Meaning a group of ships or vehicles travelling together, typically one accompanied by armed troops, warships, or other vehicles for protection:

convoy

Meaning a person whose job it is to look after someone or something:

minder

Meaning lead or guide (someone) to or around a particular place:

conduct

Meaning go somewhere with (someone) as a companion or escort:

accompany

Meaning cause (a person or animal) to go with one by holding them by the hand, a halter, a rope, etc. while moving forward:

lead

Meaning show or guide (someone) somewhere:

usher

Meaning guide or direct in a particular direction:

shepherd

Meaning accompany or guide (someone) to a specified place:

take

Meaning tell or show (someone) how to get somewhere:

direct

Meaning guide the movement or course of:

steer

Meaning keep safe from harm or injury:

protect

Meaning resist an attack made on (someone or something); protect from harm or danger:

defend

Meaning be the partner of:

partner

Meaning take or go with (someone or something) to a place:

bring

Anagrams of escorts

corsets, costers, scoters, sectors

Words that rhyme with escorts

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