ward
- See also -ward
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change- (countable) A ward is an area in a hospital that focused on one kind of medicine.
- We visited them in the hospital's children's ward.
- (countable) A ward is an area of a city.
- The lower ninth ward of New Orleans was destroyed by the flood.
- (countable) A ward is someone, usually a child, who is under the legal care of someone else.
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- (transitive & intransitive) If you ward off something bad, you do something to keep it away.