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Словосочетания

a young nurse in her first day on the wards — молоденькая медсестра в свой первый день в больничных палатах
face down(wards) — лицом вниз
hospital wards were surcharged — больничные палаты были переполнены
stand in to-wards — править по направлению к; идти по направлению к
walk the wards — учиться на медицинском факультете; быть студентом-медиком
north-wards — на север; к северу

Примеры с переводом

They were wards of the state.

Они были под опекой /защитой/ государства.

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.

Возможные однокоренные слова

ward — палата, опека, камера, подопечный, опекаемый, охранять
warder — стражник, жезл, тюремщик, сторож, стража, тюремный надзиратель
warding — тюремное заключение, охрана, караул, нарезка, ключа

Источник

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɔːd/
(General American) IPA^(key): /wɔɹd/
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English ward, 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 German Wart.

Noun[edit]

ward (plural wards)

(archaic or obsolete) A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English ward, warde, from Old English weard (“watching, ward, protection, guardianship; advance post; waiting for, lurking, ambuscade”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardu, from Proto-Germanic *wardō (“protection, attention, keeping”), an extension of the stem *wara- (“attentive”) (English wary, beware), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”).

Cognate with German Warte (“watchtower”), warten (“wait for”); English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.

Noun[edit]

ward (countable and uncountable, plural wards)

Protection, defence.
1. (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
  - 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]:
    
    there is remuneration for the best ward of mine
2. The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
3. Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
  - 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, 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.
  - c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
    
    I must attend his majesty’s command, to whom I am now in ward.
  - 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
    
    It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen’s children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.
4. An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
5. (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
6. (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
  - c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
    
    Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.
A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
1. An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
  - 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 […].
  - 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 78:
    
    With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.
2. A section or subdivision of a prison.
3. 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.
4. (UK) A division of a forest.
5. (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
6. A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
  - 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
    
    Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good.
  - 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff ‘lack skills to cope with dementia patients’”, in Guardian‎^[1]:
    
    Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers’ often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.
A person under guardianship.
1. A minor looked after by a guardian.
  
  After the trial, little Robert was declared a ward of the state.
  - 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
    
    Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
2. (obsolete) An underage orphan.
An object used for guarding.
1. The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
  - , II.1:
    
    A man muſt thorowly ſound himſelfe, and dive into his heart, and there ſee by what wards or ſprings the motions ſtirre.
  - 1852–1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
    
    The lock is made […] more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.
  - 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.

Derived terms[edit]

wardroom
(part of a hospital where patients reside): convalescent ward, critical ward

Descendants[edit]

→ Swahili: wodi

Translations[edit]

action of a watchman

Bulgarian: стража (bg) f (straža)
Dutch: bewaking (nl)
Finnish: vartio (fi), vahti (fi)
French: garde (fr) f
German: Wache (de) f
Italian: guardiano (it) m
Macedonian: стража f (straža)
Manx: doltey m
Old Irish: daltae m
Portuguese: guarda (pt) f
Spanish: guardia (es) f
Turkish: vesayet (tr), himaye (tr), koruma (tr)

person under guardianship

Dutch: curandus (nl) m
Esperanto: vartito
Finnish: holhokki, holhottava
French: pupille (fr) m or f
German: Mündel (de) n, Pflegling (de)
Irish: coimircí m
Latin: pūpillus m, pūpilla f
Macedonian: штитеник m (štitenik)
Polish: wychowanek (pl) m, podopieczny (pl) m
Portuguese: tutelado (pt) m
Serbo-Croatian: štićenik m, štićenica f
Spanish: entenado m
Turkish: vasi edinilen
Vietnamese: trẻ tạm nuôi

administrative subdivision of cities

Bulgarian: райо́н (bg) m (rajón)
Czech: okrsek m
Dutch: district (nl)
Esperanto: kvartalo
Finnish: kaupunginosa (fi)
French: arrondissement (fr) m
German: Stadtbezirk (de) m
Greek:

Ancient: ἄμφοδον n (ámphodon)
Hungarian: kerület (hu), városrész (hu)
Irish: barda (ga) m, barda cathrach m
Japanese: 区 (ja) (く, ku)
Khmer: ខាង (km) (kʰang), សង្កាត់ (km) (sɑngkat)
Korean: 구 (ko) (gu)
Macedonian: рео́н m (reón)
Nepali: वडा (ne) (waḍā)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: (electoral division) valgkrets m
Polish: okręg (pl) m, dzielnica (pl) f
Portuguese: freguesia (pt) f
Russian: райо́н (ru) (rajón)
Swahili: wodi (sw)
Turkish: mahalle (tr), semt (tr), bölge (tr)
Vietnamese: phường (vi)

Mormonism: subdivision of church

Afrikaans: wyk
Arabic: جَنَاح‎ m (janāḥ)
Bulgarian: район (bg) (rajon)
Czech: sbor (cs)
Danish: menighed (da)
Dutch: gebied (nl), wijk (nl)
Fiji Hindi: ward
French: paroisse (fr) f
German: Gemeinde (de)
Greek: τομέας (el) (toméas)
Haitian Creole: pawas
Hindi: वार्ड (hi) (vārḍ)
Hungarian: egyházközség (hu)
Icelandic: deild (is)
Italian: rione (it)
Korean: 와드 (wadeu)
Macedonian: оддел (oddel)
Norwegian: menighet
Papiamentu: bario
Persian: بخش‎ (fa)
Polish: okręg (pl)
Portuguese: ala (pt) f
Russian: большо́й прихо́д m (bolʹšój prixód), приход (ru) (prixod)
Serbo-Croatian: odjel (sh) m
Slovak: zbor
Slovene: oddelek
Spanish: barrio (es)
Swedish: församling (sv)
Ukrainian: приход (uk) (pryxod)
White Hmong: pawg ntseeg

part of a hospital where patients reside

Bulgarian: отделение (bg) n (otdelenie)
Chinese: 病房 (zh) (bìngfáng) (bìngfáng)
Czech: oddělení (cs) n
Dutch: paviljoen (nl), afdeling (nl)
Finnish: potilassali, potilashuone, osasto (fi)
French: unité (fr) f, pavillon (fr) m
German: Station (de) f
Hungarian: kórterem (hu)
Indonesian: bangsal (id), sal (id), paviliun (id)
Irish: aireagal m, barda (ga) m, barda ospidéil m
Italian: reparto (it) m
Japanese: 病室 (ja) (byōshitsu) 病棟 (byōtō)
Korean: 병동(病棟) (ko) (byeongdong)
Macedonian: одделение n (oddelenie)
Malay: wad
Manx: ward m
Polish: oddział (pl) m
Portuguese: enfermaria f
Russian: пала́та (ru) f (paláta)
Serbo-Croatian: bolesnička soba
Spanish: sala (es) f, pavellón m
Swahili: wodi (sw), wadi (sw)
Turkish: koğuş (tr)
Vietnamese: khu (vi), phòng (vi)

minor looked after by a guardian

Bulgarian: подопечен (podopečen)
Czech: svěřenec (cs) m
Dutch: pupil (nl)
Finnish: holhokki, holhottava
French: pupille (fr) m or f
German: Mündel (de) n
Japanese: 被後見人 (hikōken-nin)
Macedonian: штитеник m (štitenik)
Portuguese: tutelado (pt) m
Spanish: pupilo
Turkish: vasi edinilen, mehcur (tr), mahcur (tr), musi
Ukrainian: під опікою (pid opikoju)
Vietnamese: trẻ tạm nuôi

on a lock or key

Dutch: inkeping in sleutelbaard
Finnish: haitta (fi)
French: garde (fr) f
German: Einschnitt (de) m (of key), Aussparung (de) f (of lock)
Portuguese: guarda (pt) f
Spanish: guarda (es) f

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English warden, from Old English weardian (“to watch, guard, keep, protect, preserve; hold, possess, occupy, inhabit; rule, govern”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardōną, *wardāną (“to guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Doublet of guard.

Verb[edit]

ward (third-person singular simple present wards, present participle warding, simple past and past participle warded)

(transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
(transitive) To defend, to protect.
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
  
  Tell him it was a hand that warded him
  From a thousand dangers.
- 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.
(transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches (usually followed by off)
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
  
  Draw forth thy ſword, thou mightie man at armes,
  Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin:
  And Ioue himſelfe will ſtretch his hand from heauen,
  To ward the blow, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […]
- 1609, Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wares
  
  Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
  
  The pointed javelin warded off his rage.
- 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:
  
  It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
(intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
(intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Synonyms[edit]

(to fend off): ward off

Derived terms[edit]

beward

Translations[edit]

To keep in safety; to watch; to guard

Bulgarian: охранявам (bg) (ohranjavam)
Dutch: bewaken (nl)
Finnish: suojella (fi)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} かわす (ja) (kawasu), ^{(please verify)} 撃退する, ^{(please verify)} 追い払う (ja), ^{(please verify)} 寄せつけない, ^{(please verify)} 退ける (ja), ^{(please verify)} 通さない
Macedonian: варди (vardi), чува (čuva)
Portuguese: guardar (pt)
Russian: охраня́ть (ru) (oxranjátʹ), сторожить (ru) (storožitʹ)
Spanish: guardar (es)
Vietnamese: trông nôm

To defend; to protect

Bulgarian: пазя (bg) (pazja), защитавам (bg) (zaštitavam)
Dutch: verdedigen (nl)
Finnish: suojella (fi)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} かわす (ja) (kawasu), ^{(please verify)} 撃退する, ^{(please verify)} 追い払う (ja), ^{(please verify)} 寄せつけない, ^{(please verify)} 退ける (ja), ^{(please verify)} 通さない
Portuguese: guardar (pt), proteger (pt)
Russian: защища́ть (ru) (zaščiščátʹ)
Spanish: guardar (es), proteger (es)
Vietnamese: bảo vệ (vi)

To fend off; to repel; to turn aside

Bulgarian: отблъсквам (bg) (otblǎskvam), предотвратявам (bg) (predotvratjavam)
Dutch: afweren (nl)
Finnish: suojella (fi)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} かわす (ja) (kawasu), ^{(please verify)} 撃退する, ^{(please verify)} 追い払う (ja), ^{(please verify)} 寄せつけない, ^{(please verify)} 退ける (ja), ^{(please verify)} 通さない
Latin: arceō
Portuguese: proteger (pt), defender (pt)
Russian: отража́ть (ru) (otražátʹ)
Vietnamese: tránh (vi), đỡ (vi), gạt (vi), phòng (vi), ngăn ngừa (vi)

To act on the defensive with a weapon

Anagrams[edit]

draw

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /vart/, [vaʁt], [vaɐ̯t], [vaːt], [ʋ-]
Homophones: Wart (general), wart, wahrt (some speakers)

Verb[edit]

ward

Archaic form of wurde, the first/third-person singular preterite of werden
- Genesis 1:3
  
  Und Gott sprach: »Es werde Licht!« Und es ward Licht.
  
  And God said: «Let there be light.» And there was light.
- 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan‎^[2], Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 477:
  
  Wohingegen Diederich von tiefem Wohlgefallen erfüllt ward durch die Teckel des Kaisers, die vor den Schleppen der Hofdamen keine Achtung zu haben brauchten.
  
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

Usage notes[edit]

This form was still common, though formal, until the first half of the 20th century. Since then it has become archaic and is now no longer part of normal standard German. It may still be met with in archaicizing poetic language, including popular stock phrases such as und ward nicht mehr gesehen (“and was never seen again”).

Maltese[edit]

Root
w-r-d
5 terms

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic وَرْد‎ (ward).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /wart/

Noun[edit]

ward m (collective, singulative warda, dual wardtajn or wardtejn, plural urad or uradi or urud or uradijiet, paucal wardiet)

rose, roses

Derived terms[edit]

ward il-hena (ward tal-hena)
ward il-passjoni
ward ix-xemx
wardija
warrad
żejt tal-ward (żejt il-ward)

Manx[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English ward.

Noun[edit]

ward m (genitive singular ward, plural wardyn)

ward (in a hospital)

Old High German[edit]

Verb[edit]

ward

first/third-person singular past indicative of werdan

Источник

Noun

She works in the cancer ward.

the council representative from Ward 22

They were wards of the state.

Verb

vowed that he would take whatever measures were necessary to ward the nation’s people

Adjective suffix

a rearward movement of troops

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Источник

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wards

-wards
1> _suf. образует от существительных и наречий прилагательные
и наречия со значением: в таком-то направлении
_Ex:
backwards назад, обратный
_Ex:
homewards( идущий) к дому
_Ex:
westwards на запад

НБАРС > wards
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-wards

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > -wards
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wards

Опека(камеры)

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > wards
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wards

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > wards
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wards

Новый англо-русский словарь > wards
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-wards

НБАРС > -wards
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-wards

English-Russian combinatory dictionary > -wards
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wards

English-Russian smart dictionary > wards
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north-wards

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > north-wards
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carriage in wards

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > carriage in wards
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carriage out wards

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > carriage out wards
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court of wards

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > court of wards
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hospital wards were surcharged

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > hospital wards were surcharged
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north-wards

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > north-wards
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post-natal wards

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > post-natal wards
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the hospital wards were surcharged

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > the hospital wards were surcharged
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walk the wards

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > walk the wards
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carriage in wards

Специализированный англо-русский словарь бухгалтерских терминов > carriage in wards
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carriage out wards

Специализированный англо-русский словарь бухгалтерских терминов > carriage out wards
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court of wards

суд по делам опеки, «сиротский суд»

Англо-русский юридический словарь > court of wards

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wards — wards·man; west·wards; back·wards; bed·wards; city·wards; cloud·wards; death·wards; door·wards; dor·sal·wards; down·wards; earth·wards; equa·tor·wards; floor·wards; front·wards; god·wards; grave·wards; ground·wards; head·wards; hith·er·wards;… … English syllables
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ward

(wôrd)

a. A room in a hospital usually holding six or more patients.

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.

6. Archaic

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.

tr.v. ward·ed, ward·ing, wards Archaic

To guard; protect.

Phrasal Verb:

ward off

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.]

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ward

(wɔːd)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in many countries) a district into which a city, town, parish, or other area is divided for administration, election of representatives, etc

2. (Medicine) a room in a hospital, esp one for patients requiring similar kinds of care: a maternity ward.

3. (Law) one of the divisions of a prison

4. (Fortifications) an open space enclosed within the walls of a castle

5. (Law) law

a. Also called: ward of court a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court

b. guardianship, as of a minor or legally incompetent person

6. (Law) the state of being under guard or in custody

7. a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another

8. a means of protection

9. (Mechanical Engineering)

a. an internal ridge or bar in a lock that prevents an incorrectly cut key from turning

b. a corresponding groove cut in a key

10. a less common word for warden¹

(tr) archaic to guard or protect

[Old English weard protector; related to Old High German wart, Old Saxon ward, Old Norse vorthr. See guard]

ˈwardless adj

Ward

(wɔːd)

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)

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ward

(wɔrd)

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.

v.t.

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]

ward′less, adj.

Ward

(wɔrd)

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.

-ward

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.

Ward

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.

ward

Past participle: warded
Gerund: warding

Imperative
ward
ward

Present
I ward
you ward
he/she/it wards
we ward
you ward
they ward

Preterite
I warded
you warded
he/she/it warded
we warded
you warded
they warded

Present Continuous
I am warding
you are warding
he/she/it is warding
we are warding
you are warding
they are warding

Present Perfect
I have warded
you have warded
he/she/it has warded
we have warded
you have warded
they have warded

Past Continuous
I was warding
you were warding
he/she/it was warding
we were warding
you were warding
they were warding

Past Perfect
I had warded
you had warded
he/she/it had warded
we had warded
you had warded
they had warded

Future
I will ward
you will ward
he/she/it will ward
we will ward
you will ward
they will ward

Future Perfect
I will have warded
you will have warded
he/she/it will have warded
we will have warded
you will have warded
they will have warded

Future Continuous
I will be warding
you will be warding
he/she/it will be warding
we will be warding
you will be warding
they will be warding

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been warding
you have been warding
he/she/it has been warding
we have been warding
you have been warding
they have been warding

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been warding
you will have been warding
he/she/it will have been warding
we will have been warding
you will have been warding
they will have been warding

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been warding
you had been warding
he/she/it had been warding
we had been warding
you had been warding
they had been warding

Conditional
I would ward
you would ward
he/she/it would ward
we would ward
you would ward
they would ward

Past Conditional
I would have warded
you would have warded
he/she/it would have warded
we would have warded
you would have warded
they would have warded

ward

An electoral district of a town or city.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	ward — a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul — a human being; «there was too much for one person to do»
	2.	ward — a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections administrative district, administrative division, territorial division — a district defined for administrative purposes municipality — an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
	3.	ward — 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» hospital ward block — housing in a large building that is divided into separate units; «there is a block of classrooms in the west wing» detox — the hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified hospital, infirmary — a health facility where patients receive treatment maternity ward — a hospital ward that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants
	4.	Ward — English economist and conservationist (1914-1981) Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
	5.	Ward — English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women’s suffrage movement (1851-1920) Mary Augusta Arnold Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward
	6.	Ward — United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913) Aaron Montgomery Ward, Montgomery Ward
	7.	ward — a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) cellblock block — housing in a large building that is divided into separate units; «there is a block of classrooms in the west wing» jail cell, prison cell, cell — a room where a prisoner is kept death house, death row — the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution prison, prison house — a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
Verb	1.	ward — watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; «guard my possessions while I’m away» guard protect — shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; «Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain» shepherd — watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils

ward

ward someone off drive off, resist, confront, fight off, block, oppose, thwart, hold off, repel, fend off, beat off, keep someone at bay, keep someone at arm’s length She may have tried to ward off her assailant.

ward something off

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ward

noun

1. A person who relies on another for support:

2. The state of being detained by legal authority:

3. The act or a means of defending:

4. A person or special body of persons assigned to provide protection or keep watch over, for example:

verb

1. To keep safe from danger, attack, or harm:

2. To prohibit from occurring by advance planning or action.Also used with off:

phrasal verb
ward off

Translations

obvodpokoj

stuetilsynsbarndistrikt

hallintoalueosasto

bolnička sobaodjel

gyámolt

deildskjólstæîingur

区病棟

구병실

palata

aizbilstamais

poručenec

oddelek

distriktsal

เขตเลือกตั้งตึกคนไข้

phòng bệnhphường

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ward

[ˈwɔː^rd] n

(in hospital) → salle f

ward

(part of hospital) → Station f; (= room) (small) → (Kranken)zimmer nt; (large) → (Kranken)saal m

(Jur: = person) → Mündel nt; ward of court → Mündel nt → unter Amtsvormundschaft; to make somebody a ward of court → jdn unter Amtsvormundschaft stellen

(Jur: state) (to be) in ward → unter Vormundschaft (stehen)

ward

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ward

[wɔːd] n

b. (Law) → pupillo/a
ward of court → minore m/f sotto tutela (giudiziaria)

ward

(woːd) noun

1. a room with a bed or beds for patients in a hospital etc. He is in a surgical ward of the local hospital.

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.

ˈwarder noun

a person who guards prisoners in a jail. He shot a warder and escaped from jail.

ward

→ جَنَاح, دَائِرَة obvod, pokoj distrikt, stue Bezirk, Station θάλαμος νοσοκομείου, συνοικία distrito, sala hallintoalue, osasto circonscription, service bolnička soba, odjel circoscrizione, corsia 区, 病棟 구, 병실 buurt, ziekenhuisafdeling avdeling, bydel oddział, pokój szpitalny ala de hospital, distrito палата, район distrikt, sal เขตเลือกตั้ง, ตึกคนไข้ bölge, koğuş phòng bệnh, phường 病房, 行政区

ward

n. sala de hospital;

isolation ___ → sala de aislamiento;

___ diet → dieta hospitalaria;

___ of the state → bajo custodia, bajo tutela del estado.

Which ward is … in?

ward

n (of a hospital) sala; maternity — sala de maternidad; observation — sala de observación

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