Definitions for wards

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wards ward

Spelling: [wawrd]

IPA: /wɔrd/

Wards is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in wards (adrsw).

Definitions for wards

noun

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, floor, or room of a hospital for a particular class or group of patients:
4. any of the separate divisions of a prison.
5. a political subdivision of a parish in Louisiana.
6. Mormon Church. one of the subdivisions of a stake, presided over by a bishop.
7. Fortification. an open space within or between the walls of a castle or fortified place:
8. Law. a person, especially a minor, who has been legally placed under the care of a guardian or a court. the state of being under the care or control of a legal guardian. guardianship over a minor or some other person legally incapable of managing his or her own affairs.
9. the state of being under restraining guard or in custody.
10. a person who is under the protection or control of another.
11. a movement or posture of defense, as in fencing.
12. a curved ridge of metal inside a lock, forming an obstacle to the passage of a key that does not have a corresponding notch.
13. the notch or slot in the bit of a key into which such a ridge fits.
14. the act of keeping guard or protective watch:
15. Archaic. a company of guards or a garrison.
16. (Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. merchant and mail-order retailer.
17. Artemas [ahr-tuh-muh s] /ˈɑr tə məs/ (Show IPA), 1727–1800, American general in the American Revolution.
18. Artemus [ahr-tuh-muh s] /ˈɑr tə məs/ (Show IPA), (Charles Farrar Browne) 1834–67, U.S. humorist.
19. Barbara (Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth) 1914–81, English economist and author.
20. Mrs. Humphry (Mary Augusta Arnold) 1851–1920, English novelist, born in Tasmania.
21. Sir Joseph George, 1856–1930, New Zealand statesman, born in Australia: prime minister 1906–12, 1928–30.
22. Lester Frank, 1841–1913, U.S. sociologist.
23. Nathaniel ("Theodore de la Guard") 1578?–1652, English clergyman, lawyer, and author in America.
24. a male given name.

verb (used with object)

1. to avert, repel, or turn aside (danger, harm, an attack, an assailant, etc.) (usually followed by off):
2. to place in a ward, as of a hospital or prison.
3. Archaic. to protect; guard.

Origin of wards

before 900; (noun) Middle English warde, Old English weard; (v.) Middle English warden, Old English weardian; cognate with Middle Dutch waerden, German warten; cf. guard

Examples for wards

“I would recommend ginger tea first thing in the morning as a great way to ward off an upset stomach,” says White.

Small as the incident was, it marked a change in Sidney's position in the ward.

In that vein, Burns and ward stress how TR, ER, and FDR “overcame … the traumas of their childhoods” and young adult lives.

Here, Burns and ward not only introduce us to the diverse projects and achievements of the New Deal.

They were sent in to help educate villagers about how to ward off the lethal virus.

"Miss ward's case has not yet been settled," she said slowly.

You know, ward, I think I understand my father more every day.

But are you quite certain that you are acting wisely, Miss ward?

The lame girl who played the violin limped down the corridor into the ward.

The Christmas excitement had not died out in the ward when Carlotta went back to it.