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say it: wawrd
ward is a noun and verb meaning "a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another". It is pronounced /ˈwɔɹd/ — wawrd. It carries 8 recorded senses.
a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
“they put her in a 4-bed ward”
English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)
English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)
United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)
a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
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 ward 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.