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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



... danger. These lines are crossed and knitted in a manner all unlike the sea-weed threads that streamed so long and straight and loose in the tide-way. A secret foreboding of some unknown doom arises: the alarmed captive, having now no further room to retire, darts wildly sea-ward, and is caught in the inevitable meshes of the encircling net. After a moment of violent but feeble struggle, he is laid still and dumb ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

... had convened, the exercises were commenced by the Rev. S.R. Ward, who addressed the throne of grace, after which, Mr. Frederick Douglass delivered an oration, in a style of eloquence which only Mr. Douglass himself can equal, followed by a song from the Geneva choir, and music by Barring's band. Rev. H.H. Garnet, editor of "The National Watchman," ...
— Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman • Austin Steward

... substituted for the year 1807, as the time when the trade should be abolished. This amendment produced a long debate, which was carried on by Sir C. Pole, Messrs. Fuller, Hiley Addington, Rose, Gascoyne, and Bathurst, on one side; and by Mr. Ward, Sir P. Francis; General Vyse, Sir T. Turton, Mr. Whitbread, Lord Henry Petty, Messrs. Canning, Stanhope, Perceval, and Wilberforce on the other. At length, on a division, there appeared to be one ...
— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson

... Domitio Calvino besiegyng a toune, used for a custome to compasse aboute every daie, with a good parte of his menne, the wall of the same: whereby the Tounes menne, belevyng that he did it for exercise, slacked the Ward: whereof Domicius beyng ...
— Machiavelli, Volume I - The Art of War; and The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli

... on the horns of a dilemma, and is there no alternative to hereditary government tempered by elections, or government by the ward politician and the polling booth? Cannot we have that sense and tradition of equal opportunity for all who are born into this world, that generous and complete acknowledgment of the principle of promotion ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells


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