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.
Meaning & usage
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.
An accompanying person in such a group.
A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
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.
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.
To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
To work as an escort (sex worker).
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.