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Webster 1913 Edition

Escort

Es′cort

,
Noun.
[F.
escorte
, It.
scorta
a guard or guide, fr.
scorgere
to perceive, discern, lead, fr. L.
ex
out, quite +
corrigere
to correct, set right. See
Correct
.]
1.
A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; – applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
The troops of my
escort
marched at the ordinary rate.
Burke.
2.
Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion;
as, to travel under the
escort
of a friend
.
Syn. – To accompany; attend. See
Accompany
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Escort

ES'CORT

,
Noun.
A guard; a body of armed men which attends an officer, or baggage; provisions or munitions conveyed by land from place to place,to protect them from an enemy, or in general, for security. [This word is rarely, and never properly used for naval protection or protectors; the latter we call a convoy. I have found it applied to naval protection, but it is unusual.]

Definition 2024

escort

escort

English

Noun

escort ‎(plural escorts)

  1. A group of people, especially armed people, who go with a person of distinction for the sake of providing safety to them when on a journey;
    The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. -Burke.
  2. An accompanying person in such group
  3. A guard who travels with a dangerous person, for example 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; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
  7. A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent.
    • 2014, Jeffrey T. Parsons, Contemporary Research on Sex Work, page 87:
      Of the 68 women, 26 reported that they had worked on the streets and as an escort over the course of their career as a prostitute, 18 exclusively as a street prostitute, and 8 as an escort only (i.e., working for an escort service).

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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; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to
    • 2009, Allen D. Grimshaw, A Social History of Racial Violence
      He reported that the police escorted the children five or six blocks beyond Natural Bridge Avenue and at that point stopped the white children who were following and shooed them back to the park.
    • 1837, Mrs Chadwick, Novels of Nature
      Lord Lyndsey, ever attentive, escorted his Lady to the carriage
  2. To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.

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Etymology

French escorte, Italian scorta a guard or guide, from scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, from Latin ex out, quite + corrigere to correct, set right. See correct.

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