escort

English Online Dictionary. What means escort‎? What does escort mean?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛs.kɔɹt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛs.kɔːt/
  • Hyphenation: es‧cort
• Verb:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪsˈkɔɹt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪsˈkɔːt/
  • Hyphenation: es‧cort

Noun

escort (plural escorts)

1. 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.
2. An accompanying person in such a group.
3. A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
4. A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
5. An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
6. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
7. (somewhat euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

escort (third-person singular simple present escorts, present participle escorting, simple past and past participle escorted)

1. 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
2. To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
   • 2018, TST-00493-18 (Re), Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (Anna Solomon, member):

     At this point, the Tenant became extremely angry.... the Tenant started yelling even louder and charged at me. The Tenant was restrained by the security guard and escorted out of the hearing room. The Tenant was ultimately escorted out of the Board’s office because he continued his yelling and aggressive behaviour in the hallway and at the customer service desk.
3. To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
4. (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).

Synonyms

• accompany; attend.
• (go with someone as a partner): squire

Translations

References

• “escort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• torces, c-store, corset, sector, rectos, scoter, Tresco, recost, Cortes, Coster, Ectors, Certos, scrote, coster

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English escort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛs.kɔrt/
• Hyphenation: es‧cort

Noun

escort m (plural escorts)

1. escort (person who escorts someone for money but does not participate in sexual acts)

Related terms

• escorte
• escorteren