escort

escort is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
3. noun. To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
4. noun. the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them

   Synonyms: accompaniment

5. noun. someone who escorts and protects a prominent person

   Synonyms: bodyguard

6. noun. a participant in a date

   "his date never stopped talking"

   Synonyms: date

7. noun. an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
8. verb. accompany as an escort

   "She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball"

9. verb. accompany or escort

   "I'll see you to the door"

   Synonyms: see

Synonyms

accompaniment, bodyguard, date, see

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in escort:

corset, cortes, coster, croset, recost, rectos, scoter, sector

Common word forms

escorts, escorted, escorting, escortment

Words from these letters

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