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Ward   /wɔrd/   Listen
Ward

noun
1.
A person who is under the protection or in the custody of another.
2.
A district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections.
3.
Block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care.  Synonym: hospital ward.
4.
English economist and conservationist (1914-1981).  Synonyms: Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth.
5.
English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920).  Synonyms: Mary Augusta Arnold Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
6.
United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913).  Synonyms: Aaron Montgomery Ward, Montgomery Ward.
7.
A division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells).  Synonym: cellblock.
verb
(past & past part. warded; pres. part. warding)
1.
Watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect.  Synonym: guard.



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"Ward" Quotes from Famous Books



... vain for details of the plots and characters, and specimens of the verse, of interludes and plays which time, opportunity, and publishers combine to withhold from him. Notable exceptions to this generalization exist. Such are Sir A.W. Ward's monumental English Dramatic Literature, and that delightful volume, J.A. Symonds' Shakespeare's Predecessors; but the former extends its survey far beyond the limits of early drama, while the latter too often passes by with brief mention ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne

... proposition Euclid wrote, No formulae the text-books show, Will turn the bullet from your coat, Or ward the tulwar's downward blow: Strike hard, who cares—shoot straight, who can; The odds are on the cheaper man!" —RUDYARD ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver

... Padova, the Princess' father, never forgot that if he'd had his rights he would have been boss of his ward, and he always acted accordin'. So when he picked the Consul up on the road one night with a broken leg he gave him the best in the house, patched him up like an ambulance surgeon, and kept him board free until he could walk back to town. And so, when Miss Padova takes it ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... Christ Church that if he doesn't call off the Woman's Club, I'll bring the women of the streets to the polls." And he added, "He knows I can do it." The boss of old Ward Eight, in which Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Cincinnati is located, had become alarmed by a serious threat to his power. Although this incident took place long before the coming of universal suffrage, Reverend Frank H. Nelson, ...
— Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati • Warren C. Herrick

... grass which separated them. Accident started him in the direction of the ape-man, and then his weak eyes discerned the enemy, and with a series of snorts he charged straight for him. The little rhino birds fluttered and circled about their giant ward. Among the branches of the trees at the edge of the clearing, a score or more monkeys chattered and scolded as the loud snorts of the angry beast sent them scurrying affrightedly to the upper terraces. Tarzan ...
— Jungle Tales of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs


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