ward

See also -ward

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /wɔːd/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /wɔrd/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

Singular ward

Plural wards

1. (countable) A ward is an area in a hospital that focused on one kind of medicine.

   We visited them in the hospital's children's ward.

2. (countable) A ward is an area of a city.

   The lower ninth ward of New Orleans was destroyed by the flood.

3. (countable) A ward is someone, usually a child, who is under the legal care of someone else.

Related words

• wardship
• warder
• warden

Verb

Plain form ward

Third-person singular wards

Past tense warded

Past participle warded

Present participle warding

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you ward off something bad, you do something to keep it away.