Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“escorted” is a form of

escort

UK /ˈɛs.kɔːt/ · US /ˈɛs.kɔɹt/ noun, verb

Forms escorts escorting escorted

  1. noun A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
  2. noun An accompanying person in such a group.
  3. noun A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
  4. noun A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
  5. noun An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
  6. noun Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
  7. noun (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
  8. verb To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
  9. verb To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
  10. verb To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
  11. verb (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).

Synonyms

squire accompany attend see bodyguard accompaniment date

Etymology

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; --applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea. The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. Burke.
  2. noun Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
  3. verb To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; --used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.

Etymology [F. escorte, It. scorta a guard or guide, fr. scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, fr. L. ex out, quite + corrigere to correct, set right. See Correct.]

Etymology [Cf. F. escorter, It. scortare. See Escort, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “escort”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “escort” (best matches first).