ward

unguwa

See also -ward, and ward off

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /wɔːd/
• (US) IPA: /wɔrd/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

Singular ward

Plural wards

1. (countable) A ward is an area in a hospital that focused on one kind of medicine. <> keɓaɓɓen wuri a asibiti.

   We visited them in the hospital's children's ward.

2. (countable) A ward is an area of a city. <> unguwa a cikin birni ko gari.

   The lower ninth ward of New Orleans was destroyed by the flood.

3. (countable) A ward is someone, usually a child, who is under the legal care of someone else.

Related words

• wardship
• warder
• warden

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) ward

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) wards

Past tense (ya wuce) warded

Past participle (ya wuce) warded

Present participle (ana cikin yi) warding

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you ward off something bad, you do something to keep it away. <> tare.