Meaning

4 senses

  1. To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.

    eskortieren

    сопровожда́тьsoprovoždátʹ, сопроводи́тьsoprovodítʹ, охраня́тьoxranjátʹ

  2. To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).

  3. To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.

  4. (intransitive)To work as an escort (sex worker).

    accompany as an escort

Examples

123 sentences

  1. I've been sent to escort you.

    deMan schickt mich, um dich zu eskortieren. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Tom escorted Mary to the party.

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  3. Tom escorted Mary to the door.

    ruТом проводил Мэри до двери. — sharptoothed

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  4. Tom was escorted from the room.

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  5. Please allow me to escort you.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
To attend to in order to guard and protect:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
To attend to in order to guard and protect:

Origin

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.

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Forms

escorts, escorting, escorted, escorted
Base formescort · to escort
3rd person singularescorts
Present participleescorting
Past simpleescorted
Past participleescorted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyescort
he, she, itescorts

Past simpleLesson

all personsescorted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave escorted
he, she, ithas escorted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill escort

Synonyms

4 synonyms
accompanyB1attendB1seeA1
go with someone as a partner:squire
Close in meaning
  • conduct someone someplace:see

Word family

2 related words
Derivedescorteeescortment

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
escapeeescapismeschatologyeschewesotericespeciallyA2espionage

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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