ward

Pronunciation: [wɒ:d]

Average Rank: 9303

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 病房, 守卫, 保卫, 保护, 监护, 牢房, 行政区, 锁孔内的榫舌 vt. 使入病房, 守护, 保卫

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
  • n. a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
  • n. block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
  • n. English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: gk cet6 ky toefl ielts
Word Forms:
Plural: wards
Present Participle: warding
Past Participle: warded
Past: warded
3rd Person: wards

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#4144

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 58.6% (Top 58.6% most frequent)
58.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#3765

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 62.4% (Top 62.4% most frequent)
62.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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