b. A division in a hospital for the care of a particular group of patients: a maternity ward.
a. A division of a city or town, especially an electoral district, for administrative and representative purposes.
b. A district of some English and Scottish counties corresponding roughly to the hundred or the wapentake.
3. One of the divisions of a penal institution, such as a prison.
4. An open court or area of a castle or fortification enclosed by walls.
a.Law A minor or a person deemed legally incompetent.
b. A person under the protection or care of another.
a. The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship.
b. The act of keeping watch or being a lookout.
c. The state of being under guard; custody.
7. A defensive movement or attitude, especially in fencing; a guard.
a. The projecting ridge of a lock or keyhole that prevents the turning of a key other than the proper one.
b. The notch cut into a key that corresponds to such a ridge.
To guard; protect.
1. To turn aside; parry: ward off an opponent's blows.
2. To try to prevent; avert: took vitamins to ward off head colds.
[Middle English, action of guarding. from Old English weard. a watching, protection ; see wer- in Indo-European roots .]
1. (Biography) Dame Barbara (Mary ), Baroness Jackson. 1914–81, British economist, environmentalist, and writer. Her books include Spaceship Earth (1966)
2. (Biography) Mrs Humphry, married name of Mary Augusta Arnold. 1851–1920, English novelist. Her novels include Robert Elsmere (1888) and The Case of Richard Meynell (1911)
3. (Biography) Sir Joseph George. 1856–1930, New Zealand statesman; prime minister of New Zealand (1906–12; 1928–30)
1. (Biography) Dame Barbara (Mary ), Baroness Jackson. 1914–81, British economist, environmentalist, and writer. Her books include Spaceship Earth (1966)
2. (Biography) Mrs Humphry, married name of Mary Augusta Arnold. 1851–1920, English novelist. Her novels include Robert Elsmere (1888) and The Case of Richard Meynell (1911)
3. (Biography) Sir Joseph George. 1856–1930, New Zealand statesman; prime minister of New Zealand (1906–12; 1928–30)
1. a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
2. one of the districts into which certain English and Scottish boroughs are divided.
3. a division or large room of a hospital for a particular class of patients: a convalescent ward.
4. any of the separate divisions of a prison.
5. one of the subdivisions of a stake in the Mormon Church, presided over by a bishop.
6. an open space within or between the walls of a castle.
7. a person, esp. a minor, who has been legally placed under the care of a guardian or a court.
8. the state of being under restraining guard or in custody.
9. a movement or posture of defense, as in fencing.
10. a curved ridge of metal in a lock, fitting only a key with a corresponding notch.
11. the notch or slot on a key into which such a ridge fits.
12. the act of keeping guard or protective watch: watch and ward.
13. to avert or turn aside (danger, an attack, etc.) (usu. fol. by off ): to ward off a blow.
14. to place in a ward, as of a hospital.
15.Archaic. to protect; guard.
[before 900; (n.) Middle English warde, Old English weard; (v.) Middle English; Old English weardian, c. Old Saxon wardon, Old High German wartēn, Old Norse vartha; compare guard ]
1.(Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. mail-order retailer.
2.Artemus (Charles Farrar Browne ), 1834–67, U.S. humorist.
3.Barbara (Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth ), 1914–81, British economist, journalist, and conservationist.
4.Mrs. Humphry (Mary Augusta Arnold ), 1851–1920, English novelist, born in Tasmania.
a suffix denoting spatial or temporal direction, as specified by the initial element: afterward; backward; seaward. Also, -wards.
[Middle English; Old English -weard, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon -ward, Old High German -wart; akin to Latin vertere to turn (see verse )]
usage: Words formed with this suffix can be used as adverbs or adjectives. Although both -ward and -wards are standard for the adverbial use, the -ward form is more common in edited American English writing: to reach upward; to fall forward. The adjective form is always -ward. a backward glance.
a body of guards or defenders, as a garrison (its use survives in wardroom); a body of watchmen, 1500; patients in a hospital ward, collectively, 1768.
Past participle: warded
Gerund: warding
1. a room with a bed or beds for patients in a hospital etc. He is in a surgical ward of the local hospital. saal جَناح من مُسْتَشْفى، قِسْم болнично отделение enfermaria sál, oddělení die Station stue θάλαμος sala palat بخش osasto salle מחלקה वार्ड, रोगीकक्ष odjel (bolnički) osztály bangsal deild corsia. reparto 病室 병실 palata palāta wad afdeling sykehusrom/-avdeling oddział enfermaria secţie (de spital); sală, salon палата sála oddelek odeljenje avdelning, sal, rum แผนกในโรงพยาบาลที่มีคนไข้ประเภทเดียวกัน koğuş 病房 палата ہسپتال میں مریضوں کا کمرہ phòng bệnh 病房
2. a person who is under the legal control and care of someone who is not his or her parent or (a ward of court ) of a court. She was made a ward of court so that she could not marry until she was eighteen. voogdy قاصِر повереник tutela / custódia schovanec, -ka das Mündel tilsynsbarn κηδεμονευόμενος pupilo eestkostetav, hoolealune صغير تحت ولايت holhokki pupille בֵּן-חָסוּת आश्रित štićenik gyámolt orang yang di bawah perwalian skjólstæðingur minore. 被保護者 피보호자 globotinis aizbilstamais anak jagaan pupil myndling. barn under formynderskap osoba pod kuratelą tutelado tutelă подопечный; под опекой суда chovanec, -ka, zverenec varovanec staratelj myndling เด็กหรือผู้เยาว์ที่อยู่ในความคุ้มครองของศาล หรือผู้ปกครอง vesayet altında bulunan kimse 被監護人 підопічна особа زیر کفالت người được bảo trợ 监护，受监护人
a person who guards prisoners in a jail. He shot a warder and escaped from jail. wag حارِس، سَجّان надзирател guarda dozorce, -kyně der/die Wärter(in) fangevogter; fængselsbetjent δεσμοφύλακας celador. carcelero vangivalvur زندانبان vanginvartija gardien/-ienne de prison סוהר जेलर čuvar, stražar börtönőr sipir (fangelsis)vörður guardia carceraria 看守 교도관 kalėjimo prižiūrėtojas cietumsargs penjaga banduan cipier fengselsbetjent. fangevokter strażnik więzienny guarda gardian de închisoare надзиратель dozorca, -kyňa jetniški paznik čuvar u zatvoru fångvaktare ผู้คุม; พัศดี gardiyan 監獄看守 тюремний наглядач نگراں giám ngục 狱史，看守，典狱官
n. sala de hospital;
isolation ___ → sala de aislamiento ;
___ diet → dieta hospitalaria ;
___ of the state → bajo custodia, bajo tutela del estado.
In the evening when the son sat in the room with his mother, the silence made them both feel awk- ward .
The use of their pocket electric lights was a great help, and possibly served to ward off the attacks of jungle beasts, for as they tramped along they could hear stealthy sounds in the underbush on either side of the path, as though tigers were stalking them.
Hitherto she had been looked upon more as a ward of the Harlings than as one of the `hired girls.
A single instant was enough to assure him of the rashness of the measure, for he immediately found himself fully engaged, with all his activity and courage, in endeavoring to ward the desperate thrusts made with the knife of the Huron.
They took him to the county hospital, where a young surgeon set his arm; then he was washed and laid upon a bed in a ward with a score or two more of maimed and mangled men.
Pennington, among clergymen, Douglas and Ward. among editors, are well known instances.
I was walking in a meadow, the source of a small brook, when the sun at last, just before setting, after a cold, gray day, reached a clear stratum in the horizon, and the softest, brightest morning sunlight fell on the dry grass and on the stems of the trees in the opposite horizon and on the leaves of the shrub oaks on the hillside, while our shadows stretched long over the meadow east- ward. as if we were the only motes in its beams.
He said he would state the case exactly accord- ing to the facts; he would tell the simple straightfor- ward tale, without comment of his own; "and then," said he, "if ye find glory and honor due, ye will give it unto him who is the mightiest man of his hands that ever bare shield or strake with sword in the ranks of Christian battle -- even him that sitteth there
Its office, henceforth, for all time, will be to keep watch and ward over the secret resting-place of the young Lord Douglas, who, in 1865, was precipitated from the summit over a precipice four thousand feet high, and never seen again.
Well, by and by the king he gets up and comes for- ward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased, and to miss seeing diseased alive after the long journey of four thousand mile, but it's a trial that's sweetened and sanctified to us by this dear sym- pathy and these holy tears, and so he thanks them out of his heart and out of his brother's heart, because out of their mouths they can't, words being too weak and cold, and all that kind of rot and slush, till it was just sickening; and then he blubbers out a pious goody- goody Amen, and turns himself loose and goes to cry- ing fit to bust.
The one safeguard against Admiral Bartram's constitutional tendency to somnambulism was the watch and ward which his faithful old servant kept outside his door.
No; you have been the ward of Tellson's House since, and I have been busy with the other business of Tellson's House since.