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What (who) is ward - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Wards; Wards (disambiguation); Ward Township; WARD; Ward (disambiguation)
Ward
Direction in a straight line; a term proposed by Prof. James Thompson.
The words "backward" and "forward" indicate its scope.
ward
(wards, warding, warded)
1.
A ward is a room in a hospital which has beds for many people, often people who need similar treatment.
A toddler was admitted to the emergency ward with a wound in his chest.
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2.
A ward is a district which forms part of a political constituency or local council.
...the marginal wards of Reading Kentwood and Tilehurst West.
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3.
A ward or a ward of court is a child who is the responsibility of a person called a guardian, or of a court of law, because their parents are dead or because they are believed to be in need of protection.
Alex was made a ward of court.
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ward
I. v. a.
1.
Watch, guard.
2.
Defend, protect.
II. v. n.
Parry, act on the defensive.
III. n.
1.
Watch, guard, guardianship.
2.
Warden, keeper, defender, guardian.
3.
Custody, confinement.
4.
Defence, protection, garrison, defender, protector, means of guarding.
5.
(Law.) Pupil, minor (under guardianship).
6.
Division, district, quarter (of a town).
7.
Division, apartment.
8.
Guard (of a lock).
Examples of use of ward
1. The schools are Cleveland (Ward 1); Hyde (Ward 2); Mann, Hearst, Key and Janney (Ward 3); Barnard and Shepherd (Ward 4); Langdon and Noyes (Ward 5); and J.O.
2. "It is not achievable in transforming a ward into a single–sex ward.
3. She learned he was in Ward D of Jackson Memorial Hospital – the ward that houses criminals.
4. But when it came to ward to ward allotment, the talks failed.
5. Cheh (D–Ward 3), former Ward 5 council member Vincent B.