OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9843

ward

/wɔːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
guardia
Protection, defence.
barrio
A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
pabellón • sala
A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
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 a…
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.
guarda
An object used for guarding.
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 loc…
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.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 9844

ward

/wɔːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
guardar
To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
guardar • proteger
To defend, to protect.
Tell him it was a hand that warded him From a thousand dangers.
Phrases