escort – English noun declension

English noun forms of escort

Noun: escort
Singularescort
Pluralescorts

Sample Sentences

  • The soldier who was pulling at the other end was clumsily unhorsed, and I myself was all but thrown by the unexpected jerk. This ludicrous incident at first provoked mirth among my escort, a mirth which their superstitious minds immediately turned into an ill omen. [1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, chapter LXXXIII, in In the Forbidden Land:]
  • Whole squadrons of cavalry escort had sometimes to be sent thundering against a powerful infantry outpost in order that the brief time between the charge and the inevitable retreat might be utilized in sounding a ford or determining the point of intersection of two roads. [1883, Ambrose Bierce, George Thurston:]
  • There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star. [1955 April, “Notes and News: A Journey through Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 286:]
  • The waves being so high when we and the escorts, which stayed about one quarter mile to each side and ahead of us, were in a trough at the same time and we were unable to see one another. [1980, Ernest L. Secrest, chapter 9, in My 1102 Days of W.W. II:]
  • "He'd come in for something to eat—the red-bearded one. We had quite a chat. I told him we were traveling like Stevenson—with a donkey; but that one of the ladies had an abscess on a tooth and was going home. He said it was no place for women and offered himself as an escort." [1921, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 5, in More Tish:]
  • "I went home with Hester Paine, last evening, from writing school. Just as she had accepted my escort, Halbert came up, and in a condescending way, informed her that he would see her home." [1874, Horatio Alger, chapter 2, in Brave and Bold:]
  • Of the 68 women, 26 reported that they had worked on the streets and as an escort over the course of their career as a prostitute, 18 exclusively as a street prostitute, and 8 as an escort only (i.e., working for an escort service). [2014, Jeffrey T. Parsons, Contemporary Research on Sex Work, page 87:]
  • Every escort has at least one or two regular clients; they are our bread and butter. [2017, Samantha X, Back on Top: Confessions of a High-Class Escort, Hachette, →ISBN:]

Etymology

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta. See: French Nouns 'escorte', Italian Nouns 'scorta'.

Verbs referencing "escort"

Dutch Nouns escort.