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escort is a noun and verb meaning "someone who escorts and protects a prominent person". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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
“his date never stopped talking”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for escort come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.