escort
escort is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
- 2.To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon. See Accompany.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
- attend
- to accompany
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accessory
- accompaniment
- accompany
- addition
- adjunct
- along
- and
- appendage
- appurtenance
- arm
- associate
- associated
- association
- attend
- attendant
- attribute
- ayah
- bear
- boat
- body
- bodyguard
- bonne
- bring
- castellan
- cheek
- coast
- coefficiency
- coefficient
- coexist
- coexistence
- colleague
- collectively
- comes
- companion
- companionship
- company
- concierge
- concomitance
- concomitant
- consort
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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