[ US /ˈwɔɹd/ ]
[ UK /wˈɔːd/ ]
VERB
  1. watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
    guard my possessions while I'm away
NOUN
  1. a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
  2. a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
  3. a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
  4. block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
    they put her in a 4-bed ward
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How To Use ward In A Sentence

  • When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The speech was brimming with ideas for rewarding work and reducing dependency. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
  • The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
  • Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times
  • In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
  • The battery-operated doll comes complete with walkie-talkie and a wardrobe choice of military fatigues or bolero jacket and gold trousers.
  • Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
  • We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
  • A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
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