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Verb: escort  e'skort
  1. Accompany as an escort
    "She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball"
     
  2. Accompany or escort
    - see
Noun: escort  'es`kort
  1. Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
    - bodyguard
     
  2. The act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
    - accompaniment
     
  3. An attendant who is employed to accompany someone
     
  4. A participant in a date
    - date

Derived forms: escorted, escorting, escorts

Type of: accompany, associate, attendant, attender, companion, comrade, defender, familiar, fellow, guardian, protection, protector, shielder, tender, yokefellow [N. Amer]

Part of: appointment, date, engagement, guard

Encyclopedia: Escort