1 [C,U] a person or group of people or vehicles that travels with sb/sth in order to protect or guard them:
Armed escorts are provided for visiting heads of state. * Prisoners are taken to court under police escort. * The convoy had an escort of ten destroyers. * Bomber planes were sent out with fighter escorts.
2 [C] (formal or old-fashioned) a person, especially a man, who takes sb to a particular social event:
In my day, young women were not allowed out without a suitable escort.
3 [C] a person, especially a woman, who is paid to go out socially with sb:
an escort service / agency
verb prep.] to go with sb to protect or guard them or to show them the way:
The President arrived, escorted by twelve soldiers. * Guards escorted me back to my cell. * The referee was escorted from the pitch by police. * Let me escort you home.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for escort is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is escort a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, escort is tagged as noun.
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