The meaning of WARD is the action or process of guarding. How to use ward in a sentence.

Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward Inpatient care, more information about patient admission and discharge …

Definition of ward noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

A ward is a group of rooms or a section in a hospital or prison; in a hospital, different wards deal with different needs, like the psychiatric ward or maternity ward.

The girl was made a ward of court to stop her father taking her out of the country.

Although both -ward and -wards are standard for the adverbial use, the -ward form is more common in edited American English writing: to reach upward; to fall forward.

a division, floor, or room of a hospital for a particular class or group of patients: a convalescent ward; a critical ward. any of the separate divisions of a prison.