Noun: ward
Sample Sentences
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th'aſſieged Caſtles ward
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Their ſtedfaſt ſtonds did mightily maintaine [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15:]
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no gate they found, them to withhold,
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Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late […]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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there is remuneration for the best ward of mine [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]
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For want of other ward,
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He lifted up his hand, his front to guard. [1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like ward
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English warde, from Old English weard (“keeper, watchman, guard, guardian, protector; lord, king; possessor”), from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Cognate with Dutch waard, German Wart. See: Middle English Nouns '
warde', Old English Nouns '
weard', Dutch Nouns '
waard', German Nouns '
Wart'.
Verbs referencing "ward"
French Nouns
garde, Danish Nouns
varde, Swedish Nouns
varde, German Nouns
Wirt, Old Norse Nouns
varða, Spanish Nouns
guarida, Swedish Nouns
vård, German Nouns
Wart, Zulu Nouns
iwodi.