Meaning of ward | Babel Free

Definitions

1. room (a separate part of a building)
2. An English surname originating as an occupation for a guard or watchman.
   countable
3. Clipping of Edward (a corruption of the name Edward).
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
4. A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
   archaic, obsolete
5. Protection, defence.
   countable, uncountable
6. The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
   countable, uncountable
7. large hall
8. An English male given name.
   countable
9. Clipping of Howard.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
10. Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
    countable, uncountable
11. ward (section of a hospital)
12. A placename
    countable, uncountable
13. A parish of Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland.
    countable, uncountable
14. An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
    countable, uncountable
15. courtroom
16. A river in Ireland; in full, Ward River.
    countable, uncountable
17. A guarding or defensive motion or position.
    countable, uncountable
18. Land tenure through military service.
    countable, historical, uncountable
19. third-person singular present indicative
20. A small town in Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand, named after Joseph Ward.
    countable, uncountable
21. A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
    countable, uncountable
22. An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
    countable, uncountable
23. Ellipsis of Ward Beach: a coastline in Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
24. A section or subdivision of a prison.
    countable, uncountable
25. A locale in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
26. An unincorporated community in Sumter County, Alabama.
    countable, uncountable
27. An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
    countable, uncountable
28. A city in Lonoke County, Arkansas.
    countable, uncountable
29. A division of a forest.
    UK, countable, uncountable
30. A town in Boulder County, Colorado.
    countable, uncountable
31. A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
    Mormonism, countable, uncountable
32. An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Boone County, Indiana.
    countable, uncountable
33. A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
    countable, uncountable
34. A township in Todd County, Minnesota.
    countable, uncountable
35. A person under guardianship.
    countable, uncountable
36. A minor looked after by a guardian.
    countable, uncountable
37. A town in Allegany County, New York.
    countable, uncountable
38. An underage orphan.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
39. A township in Hocking County, Ohio.
    countable, uncountable
40. An object used for guarding.
    countable, uncountable
41. A township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
    countable, uncountable
42. The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
    countable, uncountable
43. A town in Saluda County, South Carolina.
    countable, uncountable
44. A town in Moody County, South Dakota.
    countable, uncountable
45. An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.
    countable, uncountable
46. An unincorporated community and coal town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
47. Ellipsis of Ward County.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“th'aſſieged Caſtles ward Their ſtedfaſt ſtonds did mightily maintaine”

“no gate they found, them to withhold, Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late […].”

“there is remuneration for the best ward of mine”

“For want of other ward, He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.”

“Before the dore ſat ſelfe-conſuming Care, Day and night keeping wary watch and ward, For feare leaſt Force or Fraud ſhould vnaware Breake in[…]”

“So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde, surely to be kepte as noble presoners.”

“I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward.”

“It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.”

“Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.”

“Diocletian[…]must certainly have derived some consolation from the grandeur of Aspalaton, the great arcaded wall it turned to the Adriatic, its four separate wards, each town size, and its seventeen watch-towers[…].”

“With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.”

“On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor's palace.”

“Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, Dealing an equal share to every ward.”

“Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good.”

“Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.”

“After the trial, little Robert was declared a ward of the state.”

“Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.”

“A man muſt thorowly ſound himſelfe, and dive into his heart, and there ſee by what wards or ſprings the motions ſtirre.”

“1852–1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures The lock is made […] more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.”

“With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward, where the pressure was applied.”

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