escort
pronunciation
How to pronounce escort in British English:
UK [ˈeskɔːt , ɪˈskɔːt]
How to pronounce escort in American English:
US [ˈeskɔːrt , ɪˈskɔːrt]
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- Noun:
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
- a participant in a date
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- Verb:
- accompany as an escort
- accompany or escort
Word Origin
- escort
- escort: [16] The notion underlying escort is of ‘guidance’, of ‘showing the right path’. The word comes via French from Italian scorta ‘guide’, a noun use of the past participle of scorgere ‘show, guide’. This in turn came from Vulgar Latin *excorrigere, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and Latin corrigere ‘put right’ (source of English correct).=> correct
- escort (n.)
- 1570s, in military sense, from Middle French escorte (16c.), from Italian scorta, literally "a guiding," from scorgere "to guide," from Vulgar Latin *excorrigere, from ex- "out" (see ex-) + Latin corrigere "set right" (see correct (v.)). The sense of "person accompanying another to a social occasion" is 1936.
- escort (v.)
- 1708, originally military, from escort (n.), or from French escorter; social sense is from 1890. Related: Escorted; escorting.
Example
- 1. The escort and the arrival of so many serbs are signs of the times .
- 2. They have to ask for permission to leave their bases and can do so only under an iraqi escort .
- 3. For $ 62 , jet quay personnel will greet you at arrival and escort you through main terminal areas .
- 4. China has said it has sovereignty over the south china sea and the senkaku islands and therefore has the right to escort its fishing vessels there .
- 5. With as much authority as one can command in filthy sheepskins , we introduced ourselves as the advance guard of an important foreign emissary and demanded pack animals and an escort to lhasa .