ward
part of speech
noun (a ward, wards); verb (ward off)
meaning for a pupil
1) A room in a hospital with beds for patients. tree →
2) An area of a town or city that votes for its own councillor. tree →
3) A child who is looked after by a guardian or court, not their parents. tree →
4) (verb, «ward off») To keep something bad away: ward off germs. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, a place of custody where a prisoner is held until a decision is made. Later it also means a watch or turn of duty, as when the Temple singers and gatekeepers kept "the ward" at the gates and store-houses. "Side-ward" in Samuel just means toward the side. Interpretation: In Numbers, the Sabbath wood-gatherer was held until God declared the punishment. Tradition says a person was held until the law was clear. The wards of Nehemiah are read as the orderly shifts of Levites serving in the Temple. In the primary lessons: In everyday life: a children's ward in hospital. In citizenship: local wards and councillors. In stories: a ward of a rich family. In health: washing hands to ward off colds. Phrases: «hospital ward», «ward off».
examples
- And he put them all together into ward three days. (Torah GEN.42.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. (Torah NUM.15.34, JPS 1917) tree →
- And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of the LORD. (Torah LEV.24.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in wards. (Writings NEH.12.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- And I will shoot three arrows to the side-ward, as though I shot at a mark. (Prophets 1SA.20.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates. (Writings NEH.12.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- Grandpa is on a ward on the third floor. tree →
- The nurses on the children's ward were very kind. tree →
- Our town is split into six wards. tree →
- The orphan became the ward of her uncle. tree →
- Garlic was said to ward off vampires in old stories. tree →
- Wear a warm coat to ward off the cold. tree →
- “Let us do so,” his ward agreed tree →
note
Countable. «Ward off» is a phrasal verb: warded off. Words with -ward (forward, backward) mean direction and are different. Garlic warding off vampires is only a story.
In the corpora
- And he put them all together into ward three days.
- And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of the LORD.
- And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
- And I will shoot three arrows to the side-ward, as though I shot at a mark.
- Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in wards.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ward» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.