A proper noun "ward" represents various locales in ireland, new zealand, and the united states, including a parish, a river, a small town, a coastline, cities, towns, counties, and townships.
Clipping of Edward.; A corruption of the name Edward
Clipping of Howard.
A noun "ward" represents protection, defense, monitoring, guardianship, enchantment, spell, guarding motion, and land tenure through military service.
A noun "ward" represents a protected place or subdivision, such as an area of a castle, a section of a prison, an administrative division of a borough or city, a division of a forest, a subdivision of the lds church, or a part of a hospital where patients reside.
A person, typically a minor, who is under the care and protection of a guardian.
A noun "ward" represents an object used for guarding, specifically the ridges on the inside of a lock or the incisions on a key.
(transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
(transitive) To defend, to protect.
(transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches.
(intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
(intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.