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escort.

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.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɛs.kɔɹt/General-American/ˈɛs.kɔːt/Received-Pronunciation
  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. A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.

verb/ɪsˈkɔɹt/General-American/ɪsˈkɔːt/Received-Pronunciation
  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. To work as an escort (sex worker).

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.