English Dictionary

ward

/wɔːd/

noun

(obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden. / The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.) / Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.

The ward stood at the entrance of the castle, keeping watch over the grounds.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.

there is remuneration for the best ward of mine

意味（2）

The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)

Before the dore ſat ſelfe-conſuming Care,

Day and night keeping wary watch and ward,

For feare leaſt Force or Fraud ſhould vnaware

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意味（3）

Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.

So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde, surely to be kepte as noble presoners.

意味（4）

An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.

意味（5）

(historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.

意味（6）

(fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.

Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.

意味（7）

An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.

Diocletian […] must certainly have derived some consolation from the grandeur of Aspalaton, the great arcaded wall it turned to the Adriatic, its four separate wards, each town size, and its seventeen watch-towers […].

意味（8）

A section or subdivision of a prison.

意味（9）

An administrative division of a borough, city or council.

On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor's palace.

意味（10）

(UK) A division of a forest.

意味（11）

(Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.

意味（12）

A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.

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.

意味（13）

A minor looked after by a guardian.

After the trial, little Robert was declared a ward of the state.

意味（14）

(obsolete) An underage orphan.

意味（15）

An object used for guarding.

意味（16）

The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.

, II.1:

, II.1: A man muſt thorowly ſound himſelfe, and dive into his heart, and there ſee by what wards or ſprings the motions ſtirre.