escort Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
    bodyguard.
  2. noun the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
    accompaniment.
  3. noun an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
  4. noun a participant in a date
    date.
    • his date never stopped talking
  5. verb accompany as an escort
    • She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball
  6. verb accompany or escort
    see.
    • I'll see you to the door

WordNet

Es"cort noun
Etymology
F. escorte, It. scorta a guard or guide, fr. scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, fr. L. ex out, quite + corrigere to correct, set right. See Correct.
Definitions
  1. 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.
    The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. Burke.
  2. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
Es*cort" transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. escorter, It. scortare. See Escort, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Escorted; present participle & verbal noun Escorting
Definitions
  1. 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. Syn. -- To accompany; attend. See Accompany.

Webster 1913