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escort
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[ verb ] accompany as an escort
Synonyms Examples "She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Dr._H._V._Hilprecht , Professor of Assyrian at the University_of_Pennsylvania , dreamed that a Babylonian priest , associated with the king Kurigalzu , ( 1300 B.C. . ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel , gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic , and corrected an error in its identification . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)The men helped them gather their belongings and escorted them to Raton along with three other families desiring to leave . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)McFeeley told the parents he would escort them to police_headquarters in a half hour . Skopas expressed no curiosity over the case , offered no expression of sympathy , made no move to escort McFeeley to the door . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)`` While Henry_Morgan was escorting Miss_Vera_Green from the church social last Saturday night , a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr._Morgan on the public_square '' . |
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[ noun ] someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
Synonyms Used in print ("Editorials"...)State_Department officials refusing to show their passes at the boundary , and driving two blocks into East_Berlin under military escort , will not avail . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
Synonyms Used in print (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)Everyone had heard of the American contractor who had spurned an escort . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (work) an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
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[ noun ] a participant in a date
Synonyms Examples "his date never stopped talking" Related terms |
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