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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



... Sorrow.' Then, recommending him to the care of Rohand, to whom she gave a ring which had belonged to King Mark, her brother, to prove Tristrem's relationship to that prince, she expired, to the intense grief of all her attendants. To secure the safety of his ward, Rohand passed him off as his own child, inverting the form of his name to 'Tremtris.' Duke Morgan now ruled over the land of Ermonie, and Rohand had perforce to pay ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence
... "Yes, and Laura Ward has played Celia, and is going to have to do it again," stated Clarence. "We can't waste a good dancer like that on ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer
... take that for it!" And before the brute of a youth could ward off the blow he received Tom's fist in his right eye. Then he got one in the other eye and another in the nose that made the blood spurt freely. He tried to defend himself, but Tom was "fighting mad," and his blows came so rapidly that Koswell was knocked around like a tenpin and ...
— The Rover Boys at College • Edward Stratemeyer
... feyther, Miss Dora. Oh, he wor a bad 'un to me, but he had allus a soft spot for t' lad. I'd be reet glad to send worrud. He wor theer in the ward, they ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... upheld applicable to a nonresident corporation which solicited orders from California purchasers through agents for whom it hired offices in the State and took orders subject to the vendor's approval. In Nelson v. Sears, Roebuck & Company and Nelson v. Montgomery Ward & Company, 312 U.S. 359 and 373 (1941) it was held that a foreign corporation which maintained retail stores in Iowa could be validly required to collect an Iowa use tax in respect of mail orders sent by Iowa purchasers to out-of-state branches of the corporation and filled by direct ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin


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