ESCORT

I. noun see: correct Date: 1579 1. a. a person or group of persons accompanying another to give protection or as a courtesy, the man who goes on a date with a woman, a protective screen of warships or fighter planes or a single ship or plane used to fend off enemy attack from one or more vulnerable craft, accompaniment by a person or an armed protector (as a ship), II. transitive verb Date: 1708 to accompany as an ~