Ward

Noun

 * 1) Protection, defence.
 * 2) an enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or a social unit that prevents any tresspasser from approaching or entering a premises
 * 3) The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.).
 * 4) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
 * Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward, / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in [...].
 * 1) Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
 * So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde, surely to be kepte as noble presoners.
 * 1)  Land tenure through military service.
 * 2)  A guarding or defensive motion or position.
 * 3) A protected place.
 * 4)  An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
 * 5) * 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, page 149:
 * Diocletian [...] must certainly have derived some consolation from the grandeur of Aspalaton, the great arcaded wall it turned to the Adriatic, its four separate wards, each town size, and its seventeen watch-towers...
 * 1) A section or subdivision of a prison.
 * 2) An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
 * On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor's palace.
 * 1)  A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
 * 2) A room in a hospital where patients reside.
 * 3) A person under guardianship.
 * 4) A minor looked after by a guardian.
 * After the trial, little Robert was declared a ward of the state.
 * 1)  An underage orphan.
 * 2) An object used for guarding.
 * 3) The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
 * 4) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.1:
 * A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre.
 * 1) * 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Resident Patient’, Norton 2005, page 628:
 * With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward, where the pressure was applied.

Verb

 * 1)  To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
 * 2)  To defend, to protect.
 * 3) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:
 * they went to seeke their owne death, and rushed amidst the thickest of their enemies, with an intention, rather to strike, than to ward themselves.
 * 1)  To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
 * 2)  To be vigilant; to keep guard.
 * 3) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
 * They for vs fight, they watch and dewly ward, / And their bright Squadrons round about vs plant [...].
 * 1)  To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Synonyms

 * ward off

Noun

 * 1)  A guard; a guardian or watchman.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
 * no gate they found, them to withhold, / Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late [...].

Adjectives for Ward
unguarded; close; legitimate; hard; slow-turning; airy; intricate; mutinous; surgical; gracious.

Thesaurus
Kreis, VA hospital, X ray, acropolis, administration, aegis, archbishopric, archdiocese, armament, armor, arrondissement, asylum, auspices, avert, avoidance reaction, bailiwick, balk, base hospital, bastion, beachhead, bishopric, block, blockhouse, blood bank, borough, bridgehead, bunker, canton, care, castle, charge, charity ward, check, citadel, city, client, clinic, close borough, commune, community hospital, congressional district, constablewick, consultation room, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, county, cure, custodianship, custody, defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, deflect, delivery room, departement, dependent, deter, deterrent capacity, diocese, dispensary, district, divert, donjon, duchy, ego defenses, election district, electoral district, electorate, emergency, encumbrance, escape mechanism, evacuation hospital, examining room, fasthold, fastness, fend, fever ward, field hospital, foil, forestall, fort, fortress, frustrate, garrison, garrison house, general hospital, gerrymander, gerrymandered district, governance, government, guard, guardianship, guarding, guidance, halt, hamlet, hands, hold, home, hospital, hospital room, hundred, infirmary, inpatient clinic, intensive care, interrupt, isolation, jurisdiction, keep, keeping, labor room, laboratory, lookout, magistracy, maison de sante, management, martello, martello tower, maternity ward, mental hospital, metropolis, metropolitan area, ministry, mote, motte, negative taxis, nursery, nursing home, oblast, obviate, okrug, operating room, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, oversight, parish, parry, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, peel, peel tower, pensionary, pensioner, pharmacy, picket, pillbox, pocket borough, policlinic, polyclinic, post, precinct, preclude, preventive custody, principality, prison ward, private hospital, private room, proprietary hospital, protection, protective custody, protectorship, protege, province, psychological defenses, public charge, public hospital, rath, recovery room, region, resistance, rest home, riding, rotten borough, rule out, safe district, safe hands, safeguard, safehold, safekeeping, sanatorium, security, self-defense, self-preservation, self-protection, semi-private room, sentinel, sentry, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shield, shire, shrievalty, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, silk-stocking district, single-member district, soke, special hospital, stake, state, station hospital, stave off, stay, stewardship, strong point, stronghold, stymie, surgery, surgical hospital, swing district, teaching hospital, territory, the defensive, therapy, thwart, tower, tower of strength, town, township, treatment room, trust, turn, turn aside, tutelage, veterans hospital, village, voluntary hospital, wapentake, wardenship, wardship, watch, watch and ward, watchman, well-baby clinic, wing

Etymology 1
noun weard: and verb weardian:, from West, an extension of Germanic stem *wara- "attentive" (English wary:, beware:), from. Cognate with German Warte:, warten:; English guard: is a parallel form which came via Old French.

Etymology 2
weard: (masc.), from. Cognate with German Wart:.

Noun

 * French:
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 * Manx: doltey
 * Old Irish:
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 * German:


 * French: garde


 * French: cour


 * French:


 * French: arrondissement ?
 * German: Stadtbezirk
 * Japanese: -区 (-く, -ku)


 * Korean: -구 (-gu)
 * Polish: ,
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 * Czech:


 * Russian: большой приход


 * Chinese: 病房 (bìngfáng)
 * Czech:
 * French: salle, dispensaire (m), infirmerie (f)
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 病室 病棟


 * Korean: 병동 (病棟, byeongdong)
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 * Serbo-Croatian: bolesnička soba
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 * Finnish: holhokki, holhottava
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 * Japanese: 被後見人
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 * German: Einschnitt (of key), Aussparung  (of lock)


 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: かわす "dodge," "repel,"  "drive away, ward off, reject"  "seclude,"  "ward off, seclude"  "defend, make impervious"


 * Russian: охранять, сторожить


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: かわす "dodge," "repel,"  "drive away, ward off, reject"  "seclude,"  "ward off, seclude"  "defend, make impervious"


 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: かわす "dodge," "repel,"  "drive away, ward off, reject"  "seclude,"  "ward off, seclude"  "defend, make impervious"


 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * draw

Verb

 * 1)  First-person singular indicative past form of werden.
 * 2)  Third-person singular indicative past form of werden.
 * Und Gott sprach: »Es werde Licht!« Und es ward Licht.
 * And God said: "Let there be light." And there was light.

Alternative forms

 * wurde