Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense escorts, present participle escorting, past tense, past participle escortedpronunciation note: The noun is pronounced (eskɔːʳt). The verb is pronounced (ɪskɔːʳt).
1. countable noun
An escort is a person who travels with someone in order to protect or guard them.
He arrived with a police escort shortly before half past nine.
See under escort
2. countable noun
An escort is a person who accompanies another person to a social event. Sometimes people are paid to be escorts.
My sister needed an escort for a company dinner.
Synonyms: companion, partner, attendant, guide More Synonyms of escort
3. verb
If you escort someone somewhere, you accompany them there, usually in order to make sure that they leave a place or get to their destination.
I escorted him to the door. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
The vessel was escorted to an undisclosed port. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
Synonyms: accompany, lead, partner, conduct More Synonyms of escort
More Synonyms of escort
escort in British English
noun (ˈɛskɔːt)
1.
one or more persons, soldiers, vehicles, etc, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour
2.
a man or youth who accompanies a woman or girl
he was her escort for the evening
3.
a.
a person, esp a young woman, who may be hired to accompany another for entertainment, etc
b.
(as modifier)
an escort agency
verb (ɪsˈkɔːt)
4. (transitive)
to accompany or attend as an escort
Word origin
C16: from French escorte, from Italian scorta, from scorgere to guide, from Latin corrigere to straighten; see correct
escort in American English
(noun ˈeskɔrt, verb iˈskɔrt)
noun
1.
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection,guidance, or courtesy
An escort of sailors accompanied the queen
2.
an armed guard, as a body of soldiers or ships
The president traveled with a large escort of motorcycle police
3.
someone who accompanies another person in public, as to a social event
4.
protection, safeguard, or guidance on a journey
to travel without escort
transitive verb
5.
to attend or accompany as an escort
Word origin
[1570–80; ‹ F ‹ It scorta, deriv. of scorgere to conduct ‹ VL *excorrigere. See ex-1, correct]
Examples of 'escort' in a sentence
escort
The bride was given a police escort and had to enter by the rear of the venue.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Our police escort told us it was a school.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
One issue is the cost of the police escort for the explosives used for tunnelling and drilling at the site.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
On Friday police escorted him to a safe place after collecting the last of their belongings.
The Sun (2016)
She has placed an ad with an online escort agency which will take a 20 per cent cut of the fee.
The Sun (2016)
He was reportedly obliged to leave London under a police escort, pursued by an angry mob.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In the absence of police escorts for lorries, British drivers are defending themselves as best they can.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I had to have a police escort home - two cars in front of me two behind me and police motorbikes alongside me.
The Sun (2017)
Some smiled and waved from the coaches as they were swept off under police escort to small short-term processing centres in the four corners of France.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She took refuge in a shop from where she summoned police to escort her out.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The hospital said patients get escorted leave after assessment and justice ministry consent.
The Sun (2015)
There was an armed guard escorting us.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The navy still lacks the full complement of escort vessels needed to form a carrier fleet.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Did police escort the twentysomething man from the flight?
The Sun (2015)
He was brought to prison under police escort and taken to the reception area.
Coyle, Andrew & Stern, Vivien The Prisons We Deserve (1994)
Should we hire guards or escorts for the parking lot?
Christianity Today (2000)
Real elephants sometimes wandered the camp paths and a guard escorted us home after dark.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She signed up to an online escorting agency and within a week she was entertaining her first client.
The Sun (2013)
For the last mile we had a pipe band and drummer and a police escort in the town centre.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
After six months together, he claims he caught her applying for work at an escort agency.
The Sun (2006)
A tug was on its way to the vessel to escort it in to port.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It turns out to be the baseball team leaving town: they always get an escort out and in.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
THE passenger whose hoax bomb threat saw a plane diverted under a fighter jet escort leaves court yesterday after owning up.
The Sun (2011)
Stewards on the flight from Barcelona sparked panic when they announced police were boarding to escort the woman away before take-off.
The Sun (2015)
In other languages
escort
British English: escort /ɪsˈkɔːt/ VERB
If you escort someone somewhere, you accompany them there, usually in order to make sure that they leave a place or get to their destination.
I escorted him to the door.
American English: escort
Arabic: يُصَاحِبُ
Brazilian Portuguese: escoltar
Chinese: 护卫
Croatian: ispratiti
Czech: doprovodit
Danish: eskortere
Dutch: escorteren
European Spanish: acompañar
Finnish: saattaa
French: escorter
German: begleiten Person
Greek: συνοδεύω
Italian: accompagnare
Japanese: 護衛する
Korean: 호위하다
Norwegian: eskortere
Polish: odeskortować
European Portuguese: escoltar
Romanian: a însoți
Russian: сопровождать
Latin American Spanish: escoltar
Swedish: eskortera
Thai: คุ้มกัน
Turkish: eşlik etmek refakat
Ukrainian: супроводжувати
Vietnamese: hộ tống
British English: escort NOUN
An escort is a person who travels with someone in order to protect or guard them.
He arrived with a police escort shortly before half past nine.
American English: escort
Brazilian Portuguese: escolta
Chinese: 护送
European Spanish: acompañante
French: escorte
German: Begleiter
Italian: scorta
Japanese: 付き添い
Korean: 호위원
European Portuguese: escolta
Latin American Spanish: acompañante
All related terms of 'escort'
escort duty
a military duty in which one or more servicemen accompany a person, group of people, or vehicle, for protection , guidance , restraint , or as a mark of honour
escort agency
an agency where people, esp young women, may be hired to accompany someone for entertainment , etc
escort vessel
a ship that attends another for protection , guidance , or restraint , or as a mark of honour
police escort
a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
under escort
If someone is taken somewhere under escort , they are accompanied by guards , either because they have been arrested or because they need to be protected .
escort carrier
a small aircraft carrier used chiefly as an antisubmarine escort for a convoy or task force
escort fighter
a fighter plane equipped to accompany other planes, esp. bombers , on missions as a protection against air attack
destroyer escort
a lightly armed warship smaller than a destroyer , designed to escort fleets or convoys
under police escort
If you go somewhere or are taken somewhere under police escort , you go there accompanied by a police escort.
Chinese translation of 'escort'
escort
(nˈɛskɔːt; vbɪsˈkɔːt)
n(c)
(Mil) 护(護)卫(衛) (hùwèi) (个(個), gè)
(= companion) 陪同 (péitóng) (个(個), gè)
vt
[person]护(護)送 (hùsòng)
under escort被护(護)送 (bèi hùsòng)
to escort sb to the door送某人到门(門)口 (sòng mǒurén dào ménkǒu)
1 (noun)
Definition
people or vehicles accompanying another to protect or guard them
He arrived with a police escort.
Synonyms
guard
a heavily armed guard of police
protection
Innocence is no protection from the evils in our society.
safeguard
A system like ours lacks adequate safeguards for civil liberties.
bodyguard
Three of his bodyguards were injured in the attack.
company
train
Toby arrived with his train of medical students.
convoy
They travel in a convoy with armed guards.
entourage
He was surrounded by an entourage of aides.
retinue
She left, followed by her retinue.
cortege
The funeral cortege wound its way through the city.
2 (noun)
Definition
a person who accompanies someone of the opposite sex on a social occasion
My sister needed an escort for a company dinner.
Synonyms
companion
She was employed as companion to a wealthy old woman.
partner
They were partners in crime.
attendant
He was working as a car-park attendant.
guide
With guides, the journey can be done in fourteen days.
squire (rare)
protector
beau (old-fashioned)
She appeared with her new beau.
chaperon
(verb)
Definition
to act as an escort to
I escorted him to the door.
Synonyms
accompany
Ken agreed to accompany me on a trip to Africa.
lead
He led him into the house.
partner
conduct
He asked if he might conduct us to the ball.
guide
She took the bewildered man by the arm and guided him out.
guard
shepherd
She was shepherded by her guards up the rear ramp of the aircraft.
convoy
He ordered the combined fleet to convoy troops to Naples.
usher
They were quickly ushered away.
squire (old-fashioned)
hold (someone's) hand
chaperon
Additional synonyms
in the sense of attendant
Definition
a person who assists, guides, or provides a service
He was working as a car-park attendant.
Synonyms
assistant,
guide,
guard,
servant,
companion,
aide,
escort,
follower,
steward,
waiter,
usher,
warden,
helper,
auxiliary,
custodian,
page,
menial,
concierge,
underling (derogatory),
lackey,
chaperon,
flunky
in the sense of beau
Definition
a boyfriend
She appeared with her new beau.
Synonyms
boyfriend,
man,
guy (informal),
date,
lover,
young man,
steady,
escort,
admirer,
fiancé,
sweetheart,
suitor,
swain (archaic),
toy boy,
leman (archaic),
fancy man (slang),
bae (US, informal)
in the sense of bodyguard
Definition
a person or group of people employed to protect someone
Three of his bodyguards were injured in the attack.