Noun

• S: (n) ward (a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another)
• S: (n) ward (a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) administrative district, administrative division, territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
• S: (n) borough (one of the administrative divisions of a large city)
• S: (n) canton (a small administrative division of a country)
• S: (n) city (an incorporated administrative district established by state charter) "the city raised the tax rate"
• S: (n) commune (the smallest administrative district of several European countries)
• S: (n) country, state, land (the territory occupied by a nation) "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
• S: (n) county ((United States) the largest administrative district within a state) "the county plans to build a new road"
• S: (n) county palatine (the territory of a count palatine)
• S: (n) department (the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France))
• S: (n) federal district (a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation)
• S: (n) reservation, reserve (a district that is reserved for particular purpose)
• S: (n) school district (a district whose public schools are administered together)
• S: (n) shire (a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county)
• S: (n) municipality (an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government)
• S: (n) prefecture (the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire))
• S: (n) state, province (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation) "his state is in the deep south"
• S: (n) township, town (an administrative division of a county) "the town is responsible for snow removal"
• S: (n) ward (a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections)
• S: (n) Lower Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; consists of the Nile delta)
• S: (n) Upper Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan)
• S: (n) Khabarovsk (an administrative territory in Russia on the eastern coast of Siberia)
• part holonym
• S: (n) ward, hospital ward (block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care) "they put her in a 4-bed ward"
• S: (n) Ward, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (English economist and conservationist (1914-1981))
• S: (n) Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold Ward (English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920))
• instance
• S: (n) Ward, Montgomery Ward, Aaron Montgomery Ward (United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913))
• S: (n) cellblock, ward (a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells))

Verb

• S: (v) guard, ward (watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect) "guard my possessions while I'm away"