escort
Naija
Etymology
Borrowed from English escort
Pronunciation
- ɛ̀skɔ̂t
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3891
- Frequency in raw corpus: 57
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2912
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Noun
escort: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:2)
- Escort! — (deuber__5762, __no translation__)
- For di video, dem see one police escort car wey Davido dey use come drop di bodi for di hospital. — (bbc__97755, __no translation__)
- det (frequency:2)
- Shell give Nigerian oil minister $1.1bn bribe How Jaguda pipo take kidnap shell workers and kill dia escort for Rivers State — (bbc__56499, __no translation__)
- Govnor Wike cut Andoni chiefs 72 hours warning to produce kidnapped expatriates How Jaguda pipo take kidnap shell workers and kill dia escort for Rivers State — (bbc__54866, __no translation__)
- case-nmod:poss (frequency:2)
- Dis woman had to come out of her car with her, her escort. — (WAZL_02_Good-Morning-Nigeria_MG__54, This woman had to come out of her car, with her, her escorts.)
- And you say and dese are di people dat will come with deir escort to ATM, and without uttering a word of sorry, de do whatever de wan to do, and go. — (WAZK_01_Mose-And-Ubike_DG__69, And you said, and these are the people that will come with their escort to the ATM and without uttering a word of sorry, they do whatever they want to do and go.)
Derived forms
- Tori be say security escort dey cari di mint money, wey dem ship cari come from obodo oyinbo, from port go Liberia Central Bank wen e vanish like ghost for March dis year. — (bbc__95292, __no translation__)
- Peaceful protest ontop di flood wey don sack pipo and business comot parts of southern Nigeria turn bloody on Monday as security escort shoot kill one pesin inside one community, for Rivers State. — (bbc__80730, __no translation__)
Synonyms
- gbab 0.74 261, surround 0.73 71, escorts 0.71 6, surrender 0.71 95, detain 0.70 120, battalion 0.68 33, teargas 0.68 23, handcuff 0.68 17, re-arrest 0.68 20
Antonyms
- gbab 0.74 261, surround 0.73 71, escorts 0.71 6, surrender 0.71 95, detain 0.70 120, battalion 0.68 33, teargas 0.68 23, handcuff 0.68 17, re-arrest 0.68 20
Translations
- English: no definition
Verb
escort: to accompany -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Tobe, abeg escort am go buy something for market for me. — (Tobe, please accompany him/her to buy things in the market for me.)
- aux-mark-obj (frequency:3)
- Di statement note say na El-Zakzaky choose di hospital, chose im own aides wey go escort am plus im personal doctors. — (bbc__38557, __no translation__)
- Na last month bad gang of five men corner and open fire for di car wey dey carry di engineer go site and dem even kill di police man wey dey escort am. — (bbc__71301, __no translation__)
- compound:svc-obj (frequency:3)
- By di time wey dem dey do di talk-talk o, na one ogbonge oga na im escort di delegation from America come o, im name na Mr. — (deuber__59, __no translation__)
- Na escort British police escort di match referee, German Rudolf Kreitlein, comot from pitch afta im remove Argentina captain Antonio Rattin for 36 minute. — (bbc__70708, __no translation__)
- compound:svc-mark-obj (frequency:3)
- Airport users na oda pipo wey escort passengers come? — (bbc__23270, __no translation__)
- Time to escort her go house she go say no problem, you no know road for Onitsha, make I go home. — (ONI_04_Women_M__4, Time to escort her to the house, she will say I do not know the road that I should go home)
- mark-obj (frequency:2)
- If I escort my friend, I go carry am go di pa~, parent's house go ask dem abeg make de live dis small pikin, make de no beat am, no be her fault. — (NST_cleaned__8570, __no translation__)
- Our boys dey peaceful and no dey find trouble na just our opponents wey wan use wetin happun lie ontop our head, we go airport to escort our members wey dey travel go abroad for education and na dia everything happun. — (bbc__5642, __no translation__)
- aux-nsubj-obj (frequency:2)
- Tori be say di two police men bin dey escort one lorry wey carry money dey go bank wen di boys attack Dem and two oda pipo wey get gunshot wounds dey receive treatment for hospital. — (bbc__95071, __no translation__)
- Security forces dey escort South Sudan soldiers wey dem suspect say rape five foreign aid workers come kill one local journalist US don sanction two South Sudanese officials and di country former army chief. — (bbc__87356, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- gbab 0.74 261, surround 0.73 71, escorts 0.71 6, surrender 0.71 95, detain 0.70 120, battalion 0.68 33, teargas 0.68 23, handcuff 0.68 17, re-arrest 0.68 20
Antonyms
- gbab 0.74 261, surround 0.73 71, escorts 0.71 6, surrender 0.71 95, detain 0.70 120, battalion 0.68 33, teargas 0.68 23, handcuff 0.68 17, re-arrest 0.68 20
Translations
- English: to accompany