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Definition of 'WARD' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) ward
a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.

2.  ward
one of the districts into which certain English and Scottish boroughs are divided.

3.  ward
a division or large room of a hospital for a particular class of patients:
a convalescent ward.

4.  ward
any of the separate divisions of a prison.

5.  ward
one of the subdivisions of a stake in the Mormon Church, presided over by a bishop.

6.  ward
an open space within or between the walls of a castle.

7.  ward
a person, esp. a minor, who has been legally placed under the care of a guardian or a court.

8.  ward
the state of being under restraining guard or in custody.

9.  ward
a movement or posture of defense, as in fencing.

10.  ward
a curved ridge of metal in a lock, fitting only a key with a corresponding notch.

11.  ward
the notch or slot on a key into which such a ridge fits.

12.  ward
the act of keeping guard or protective watch:
watch and ward.

13. (v.t.) ward
to avert or turn aside (danger, an attack, etc.) (usu. fol. by off):
to ward off a blow.

14.  ward
to place in a ward, as of a hospital.

15.  ward
Archaic. to protect; guard.

16. (n.) Ward
(Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. mail-order retailer.

17.  Ward
Artemus (Charles Farrar Browne), 1834–67, U.S. humorist.

18.  Ward
Barbara (Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth), 1914–81, British economist, journalist, and conservationist.

19.  Ward
Mrs. Humphry (Mary Augusta Arnold), 1851–1920, English novelist, born in Tasmania.


Definition of 'WARD' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) ward
a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another

2. (noun) ward
a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections

3. (noun) ward, hospital 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"

4. (noun) Ward, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)

5. (noun) Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold Ward
English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)

6. (noun) Ward, Montgomery Ward, Aaron Montgomery Ward
United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)

7. (verb) cellblock, ward
a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)

8. (verb) guard, ward
watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
"guard my possessions while I'm away"


Definition of 'WARD' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) ward
a division of a city
New Orleans' ninth ward

2.  ward
a division of a hospital
the children's ward


Definition of 'WARD' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) WARD
the act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1

2. (noun) WARD
one who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection

3. (noun) WARD
the state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody

4. (noun) WARD
a guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard

5. (noun) WARD
one who, or that which, is guarded

6. (noun) WARD
a minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery

7. (noun) WARD
a division of a county

8. (noun) WARD
a division, district, or quarter of a town or city

9. (noun) WARD
a division of a forest

10. (noun) WARD
a division of a hospital; as, a fever ward

11. (noun) WARD
a projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it

12. (noun) WARD
a notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch

13. (noun) WARD
to keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time

14. (noun) WARD
to defend; to protect

15. (noun) WARD
to defend by walls, fortifications, etc

16. (noun) WARD
to fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off

17. (verb) WARD
to be vigilant; to keep guard

18. (verb) WARD
to act on the defensive with a weapon


Definition of 'WARD' The Standard Electrical Dictionary 

1.  WARD
Direction in a straight line; a term proposed by Prof. James Thompson. The words "backward" and "forward" indicate its scope.


Translation of 'WARD' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

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

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: saal Arabic flag Arabic: جَناح من مُسْتَشْفى، قِسْ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: болнично отделение
Brazilian flag Brazilian: enfermaria Czech flag Czech: sál, oddělení German flag German: die Station
Danish flag Danish: stue Greek flag Greek: θάλαμος Spanish flag Spanish: sala
Estonian flag Estonian: palat Farsi flag Farsi: بخش Finnish flag Finnish: osasto
French flag French: salle Hebrew flag Hebrew: מַחלָקָה Hindi flag Hindi: वार्ड, रोगीकक्ष
Croatian flag Croatian: odjel (bolnički) Hungarian flag Hungarian: osztály Indonesian flag Indonesian: bangsal
Icelandic flag Icelandic: deild Italian flag Italian: corsia, reparto Japanese flag Japanese: 病室
Korean flag Korean: 병실 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: palata Latvian flag Latvian: palāta
Malay flag Malay: wad Dutch flag Dutch: afdeling Norwegian flag Norwegian: sykehusrom/-avdeling
Polish flag Polish: oddział Portuguese flag Portuguese: enfermaria Romanian flag Romanian: secţie (de spital); sală,
Russian flag Russian: палата Slovak flag Slovak: sála Slovenian flag Slovenian: oddelek
Serbian flag Serbian: odeljenje Swedish flag Swedish: avdelning, sal, rum Thai flag Thai: แผนกในโรงพยาบาลที่มีคนไข้
Turkish flag Turkish: koğuş Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 病房 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: палата
Urdu flag Urdu: ہسپتال میں مریضوں کا کمرہ Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: phòng bệnh Chinese flag Chinese: 病房

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