escort

Meaning

Noun

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. (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.

Verb

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).
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

convoy

accompaniment

guard

💂

lead

conduct

guide

chaperon

transfer

squire

partner

companion

usher

attend

go with

protect

convey

bring

attendant

procession

retinue

see

👀

follow

bodyguard

prostitute

date

📅

preserve

hooker

defend

carry

call girl

show the way

gallant

see off

security guard

fetch

watch

⌚

pawn

entourage

minder

patrol

chaperone

deliver

whore

cortege

consult

concubine

comrade

call

go along

Translations

escorter

escorte

scorta

accompagner

escolta

Eskorte

scortare

déménager

accompagnement

escoltar

begeleiding

escolta

Geleit

accompagnare

συνοδεία

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛs.kɔɹt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.

Sentences

May I escort you to the garage ?

There she served as local convoy escort for the remainder of hostilities .