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ward English

Meaning ward meaning

What does ward mean?
Definitions in simple English

ward Noun

— A ward is an area in a hospital that focused on one kind of medicine. We visited them in the hospital's children's ward. — A ward is an area of a city. The lower ninth ward of New Orleans was destroyed by the flood. — A ward is someone, usually a child, who is under the legal care of someone else.

ward Verb

— If you ward off something bad, you do something to keep it away.

ward

— noun a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another — noun a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections — noun 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 — noun (= cellblock) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) — verb (= guard) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect guard my possessions while I'm away

Ward

— noun United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913) — noun English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920) — noun English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)

Synonyms ward synonyms

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ward English » English

guard district section division hospital ward area sickroom protect guardianship department custody cell watch square specialization safeguard room region protection pigeonhole neighborhood monitor keeper infirmary constituency compartment cellblock branch aisle adopted child womb wing watchman wardship voting precinct twins surveillance supervision superintendence student spy on son sickbay shield separate riding refrain from quarter pupil property

Ward English » English

Mrs. Humphrey Ward Montgomery Ward Mary Augusta Arnold Ward Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Barbara Ward Aaron Montgomery Ward

Topics ward topics

What do people use ward to talk about?
Person Healthy Treat disease

Hospital
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Sorcery

  • What words refer to protecting someone from sorcery?
    ward off

Conjugation ward conjugation

How do you conjugate ward?

ward · verb

Examples ward examples

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Simple sentences

In order to buy a car, you must show the ward office proof of parking space.
How long does it take to go to the Toshima Ward Office?
The talisman he's wearing is supposed to ward off evil spirits.
The company did not immediately know how to ward off these attacks.
The patient was transferred to the cardiology ward.
She is my ward.

Movie subtitles

Children's ward.
Sister Julienne was able to telephone the Children's Ward.
I'll leave the two of you to say goodbye and then I'll take her to the ward, all right?
To the bandaging ward.
We're going to the bandaging ward.
Free ward.
Ward Bryant, publisher and leading crusader against the rackets receives a telephone death threat against himself and his family.
Isn't that reason enough for a royal ward who must obey her guardian?
If I could promise him marriage to a royal ward, it might help my plans.
And your first thought, as Richard's loyal ward, was to warn him.
I'm the royal ward of King Richard and no one but the king himself.. hastherighttocondemnmetodeath.
He wouldn't dare execute the king's ward.
If you will come with me, you could stay overnight in a private ward.
Psychopathic ward.
You have a note for my ward?
I put up my right hand to ward off the blow and received this cut.
Ward Guisenberry.
And in the white corner, 1 91 pounds, Ward Guisenberry.
Ward.
Listen, Ward, for three years, I've kept Nick from taking a swing at that man and now you do it.
From now on, I will call you Ward.
This is Ward Washberry.
Ward knocked him cold.
I thought you didn't like Ward.
If you speak the truth maybe it is just as good Nicky told Ward not to come back anymore.
Maybe someday we'll go to see Ward instead.
Oh, hello, Ward.
We'll make monkeys out of those ward heelers. Nobody'll vote for them, not even their wives.
By Michael Ward.
As I live and breathe, Michael Ward, the shining light of journalism the boy who made good.

News and current affairs

I remember working at a pediatric ward as a teenager and watching children die from diseases like polio, measles, and tetanus - all easily prevented by vaccines.
The Greek saga shows that this system cannot control destabilizing imbalances quickly enough to ward off major crises.
Tsipras needs to assure Merkel that Greece will live within its means, not as a chronic ward of Europe.
A government impressed by past national achievement, but fearful of being overtaken and deeply worried about its own legitimacy, is likely to look for an outlet in foreign policy to mobilize domestic support or ward off opposition.
The purpose is to ward off the contagion that posed such a threat to countries with generally good policies over the past two years.
It is a state of being involuntarily gripped by something that is difficult to ward off and for which, since one cannot act otherwise, one is accountable only in a limited sense.
Whatever one thinks about the war in Iraq, the US presence there has helped Lebanon to ward off Syrian efforts to reverse its withdrawal, as well as Arab efforts to compel the Lebanese to compromise with a regime that loathes Lebanese sovereignty.
He was taken to the psychiatric ward, where, according to another prisoner who had been there, he was kept until he died.
Can you kill yourself in the psych ward?
Between 2010 and 2012, the center-left PASOK was in government, doing whatever it took to preserve Greece's membership of the euro and ward off formal default.
The illness experience gets less and less pedagogic attention as the student progresses from classroom to inpatient ward and clinic.
Europe's fragile economy has similarly failed to recover strongly enough to ward off periodic growth setbacks.
With the housing collapse lowering spending, the Fed, in an effort to ward off recession and help banks with fragile balance sheets, has been cutting interest rates since the fall of 2007.
When others from his ward were evacuated, he asked not to be left behind.
In 1873, the retailer Montgomery Ward was just a year old, and the first Sears Roebuck catalogue was still 20 years away.
There is always a residual danger that China will embrace nationalism to ward off domestic problems.
Raising interest rates to the sky in a country that has bad banks and bad debt won't convince and ward off speculators.

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