Clues for the word "WARD"
We've had 89 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 188 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer crossword on March 17, 2025.
Definition of ward
- a. - The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
- n. - One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
- n. - The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
- n. - A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
- n. - One who, or that which, is guarded.
- n. - A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
- n. - A division of a county.
- n. - A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
- n. - A division of a forest.
- n. - A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
- n. - A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.
- n. - A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
- n. - To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
- n. - To defend; to protect.
- n. - To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
- n. - To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
- v. i. - To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- v. i. - To act on the defensive with a weapon.
Referring Clues
- Hospital unit
- Voting district
- Precinct
- Prison area
- One in custody
- Feminist Julia ___ Howe
- City district
- Charge
- Fend (off)
- Prison division
- Political district
- Alderman's district
- City division
- Hospital area
- Hospital section
- District
- Voting area
- Urban division
- Hospital division
- Repel, with "off"
- Urban district
- Guardian's charge
- Beaver Cleaver's dad
- Annie, to Warbucks
- Beaver's dad
- Prison section
- Beaver's father
- Stave (off)
- Guardian's concern
- Dick Grayson, to Bruce Wayne
- Repel, with "off"
- Electoral district
- Beaver relative
- Division with cells
- Municipal division
- Intern's beat
- ___ of the state
- Political division
- Prison unit
- 'Leave It to Beaver' dad
- Actress Sela
- Prison part
- Dick Grayson vis-à-vis Bruce Wayne
- Annie, vis-à-vis Daddy Warbucks
- Hospital wing
- Certain charge
- See 21-Down
- Maternity ___
- Mr. Cleaver of classic TV
- Local political district
- Beaver Cleaver's father
- Estella, to Miss Havisham
- June Cleaver's TV husband
- Mr. Cleaver
- "Transfiguration of Vincent" singer/songwriter M.
- She & Him guitarist M.
- Monster of Folk guy M.
- Tow back and charge
- I'm in hospital: having 7 I'm Arcturus
- Local administrative district
- Hospital room
- Councilor's place
- See 21
- City section
- June Cleaver's husband
- Local election division
- A minor part of the city
- Minor in the charge of a guardian
- Minor drawback
- To repel, or New Brunswick loyalist Chipman
- Maternity ___ (area in a hospital)
- One guarded when there's fighting at Land's End
- In hospital, a great struggle with a good ending
- Dependent
- -
- See 1
- Actor Bond
- Alderman's domain
- Treatment area charge creates political division
- Charge nurse’s charge
- Dependant
- See 105-Across
- Maternity floor
- Division of New Orleans
- New Orleans voting district
- One of 17 in New Orleans
- Care
- Jesmyn ___, first woman to win two National Book Awards for Fiction
- ___ off (repel)
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 10, 2025
- USA Today - March 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 24, 2024
- New York Times - November 17, 2024
- New York Times - November 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 29, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 22, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 27, 2023
- Daily American - December 09, 2023
- Daily American - September 27, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 07, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 17, 2023
- Mirror Daily - July 03, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 04, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 03, 2023
- Daily American - May 07, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 03, 2023
- New York Times - April 26, 2023
- Mirror Daily - March 24, 2023
- New York Times - March 24, 2023
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