escort

[ noun es-kawrt; verb ih-skawrt ]

noun

1. a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:

   An escort of sailors accompanied the queen.

2. an armed guard, as a body of soldiers or ships:

   The president traveled with a large escort of motorcycle police.

3. a man or boy who accompanies a woman or girl in public, as to a social event.
4. a person, especially a woman female escort, but sometimes a man male escort, who is paid to go on a date with a client, and usually to engage in sex acts for money.
5. protection, safeguard, or guidance on a journey:

   to travel without escort.

   Synonyms: convoy

verb (used with object)

1. to attend or accompany as an escort.

   Synonyms: guide, take, chaperone, squire, usher, conduct

escort

noun

1. one or more persons, soldiers, vehicles, etc, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour
2. a man or youth who accompanies a woman or girl

   he was her escort for the evening

3. 1. a person, esp a young woman, who may be hired to accompany another for entertainment, etc
   2. ( as modifier )

      an escort agency

verb

1. tr to accompany or attend as an escort

Other Words From

• un·es·cort·ed adjective
• well-es·cort·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of escort¹

First recorded in 1570–80; from French, from Italian scorta, derivative of scorgere “to conduct, guide,” from Vulgar Latin excorrigere (unrecorded); ex- ¹, correct

Word History and Origins

Origin of escort¹

C16: from French escorte, from Italian scorta, from scorgere to guide, from Latin corrigere to straighten; see correct

Synonym Study

See accompany.

Example Sentences

When this did not provoke the "reaction she wanted", she then set up a profile of the woman on an escort site alongside her husband's phone number, the court heard.

From BBC

A woman who posted naked photographs of her father's former mistress on an escort site as an act of "revenge" has been jailed for three years.

From BBC

Some involve fighter jets to be scrambled to escort planes reporting threats like it happened with a Heathrow-bound Air India flight over Norfolk and a Singapore-bound Air India Express last week.

From BBC

He agreed to escort me through the solitary confinement administration building.

From Slate

The exchanges come after a row centred around the prime minister's attendance at one of the star's sell-out shows, and the news that Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper were involved in talks about security for the concerts after which Swift was granted a blue-light escort - a type of protection usually reserved for royalty and senior politicians.

From BBC

Related Words

• attendant
• bodyguard
• companion
• convoy
• entourage