Word Meaning

ward definition and meaning

a. Ware; aware.
n. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
n. A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
n. Instruments of war.
n. Forces; army.
n. The profession of arms; the art of war.
n. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
v. i. To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
v. i. To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
v. t. To make war upon; to fight.
v. t. To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
a. The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
n. One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
n. The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
n. A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
n. One who, or that which, is guarded.
n. A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
n. A division of a county.
n. A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
n. A division of a forest.
n. A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
n. 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.
n. A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
n. To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
n. To defend; to protect.
n. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
n. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
v. i. To be vigilant; to keep guard.
v. i. To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Crossword clues for ward

- Armed combat
- Armed conflict
- Armed hostilities
- Battle
- Battle (with)
- Battle of nations
- Combat
- Conflict
- Fighting between nations
- Hostilities
- Hostilities in swarm
- Major conflict
- Make love not ...!
- Period of armed conflict
- Polish city saw no conflict
- Polish city saw no more conflict
- Take notice of award in battle
- Type of paint
- Very rare setback in battle
- Warned to ignore Flanders battle
- Word seen following cold or turf
- ww1
- WWI, World ... One
- A room in a hospital
- Battle to get five hundred in patient’s room
- Cell block
- Guardian's charge; municipal division
- Guardian’s charge
- Hospital room
- Hospital section