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# ward

«ward» in Mova's school dictionary: **A room in a hospital with beds for patients** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#m1)

2) An area of a town or city that votes for its own councillor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#m2)

3) A child who is looked after by a guardian or court, not their parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#m3)

4) (verb, «ward off») To keep something bad away: ward off germs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#m4)

### sense in the 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

- Grandpa is on a ward on the third floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#x1)
- The nurses on the children's ward were very kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#x2)
- Our town is split into six wards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#x3)
- The orphan became the ward of her uncle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#x4)
- Garlic was said to ward off vampires in old stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#x5)
- Wear a warm coat to ward off the cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#x6)
- “Let us do so,” his ward agreed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/#x7)

### 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

- [It's a special hospital ward where doctors and nurses look after very poorly or very early babies all day and all night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/18/)
- [Intensive care is a special hospital ward where very poorly or very early babies are watched day and night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/44/)
- [Children's wards have nurses, doctors and play specialists, and usually a bed or chair so a parent can stay overnight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/4/)
- [Children's wards let a parent stay and have play areas and friendly staff, so a child in hospital is not left alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/33-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent/4/)
- [And he put them all together into ward three days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1378/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ward» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/ward/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.