escort
Accompany for safety
An escort accompanies someone for protection, guidance, or courtesy.
A dignitary travels with a police escort; a guest is escorted to their table.
The term extends to paid companions—sometimes implying sexual services, sometimes not.
Escort services often use the word as a euphemism for prostitution, though many escorts provide only companionship: She worked as an escort for wealthy businessmen.
Paid personal security agent
- securityProtection from threat
- protectionGuarding against harm
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- detailSingle small element
safeguard · sentinel · watchman · surveillance · patrol · defender · bouncer · custodian
One who keeps company
- chaperoneProtective adult companion
- attendantOne who assists others
- usherOne who seats guests
- docentTrained museum tour leader
tour · accompany · host · hostess · guide · lead · sherpa · cicerone
Power to act
- companionOne who keeps company
- professionalCredentialed in one's field
- hiredGiven employment
- bookingAdvance arrangement secured
appointment · client · outcall · incall · discreet · arrangement · provider · courtesan
bodyguard
Paid personal security agent
- securityProtection from threat
- protectionGuarding against harm
- convoyGuarded traveling group
detail · safeguard · sentinel · watchman · surveillance · patrol · defender · bouncer · custodian · shield
companion
One who keeps company
docent · tour · accompany · host · hostess · guide · lead · sherpa · cicerone · navigator
agency
Power to act
- companionOne who keeps company
- professionalCredentialed in one's field
- hiredGiven employment
booking · appointment · client · outcall · incall · discreet · arrangement · provider · courtesan · hostess
gala
Festive formal occasion
black-tie · date · plus-one · companion · arm · evening · ceremony · invitation · soiree · procession
convoy
Guarded traveling group
destroyer · frigate · patrol · mission · formation · naval · aircraft · reconnaissance · deployment · sortie
- Navyadmiral, battleship, destroyer, aircraft carrier, cruiser
- caretakerscaretaker, caretakers, caregiver, guardian, minder
- defenseswall, walls, fence, gate, barrier
- processionsparade, procession, march, funeral procession, military parade
- protectivenessguarding, shielding, sheltering, defender, protector
- Traffic Policetraffic cop, traffic stop, patrol car, traffic stops, highway patrol
escortendanger
To put at risk
expose · imperil · jeopardize · betray · throw to the wolves
- escort serviceHired accompaniment provider
- police escortOfficers accompanying for safety
- armed escortWeapon-carrying protective companion
- escort agencyFirm arranging paid companionship
- motorcycle escortProtective vehicular accompaniment detail
- escort missionGuarding someone through danger