Hospital ward
A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized Medical Science, health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically ...
, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
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Prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state ...
ward, a division of a penal institution such as a prison
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Ward (electoral subdivision)
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected ...
, electoral district or unit of local government
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Ward (fortification)
A bailey or ward in a fortification is a leveled courtyard, typically enclosed by a curtain wall. In particular, a medieval type of European castle is known as a motte-and-bailey. Castles and fortifications may have more than one bailey, and th ...
, part of a castle
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Ward (LDS Church)
A ward is a local congregation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with a smaller local congregation known as a branch.
A ward is presided over by a Bishop (Latter Day Saints), bishop, the equivalent of a pastor in ma ...
, a local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Ward (Vietnam)
Ward () is a type of third tier subdivision of Vietnam. It has equal status with township and commune. As of 13 December 2023, Vietnam has a total of 1,780 wards.
According to hierarchy of Vietnamese administrative unit, Wards are subordinat ...
, a type of third-tier subdivision of Vietnam
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Wards of Japan
A is a subdivision of the cities of Japan that are large enough to have been City designated by government ordinance, designated by government ordinance.WARD (FM), a radio station (91.9 FM) licensed to serve New Paris, Ohio, United States; see List of radio stations in Ohio
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WOUF (AM)
WOUF (750 AM) was a radio station licensed to Petoskey, Michigan, and was owned by Suzanne Henderson through N Content Marketing, LLC. The station operated from 2000 to 2023.
History
The station began broadcasting in June 2000, holding the cal ...
, a radio station (750 AM) licensed to serve Petoskey, Michigan, United States, which held the call sign WARD from 2008 to 2021
* Warring Adolescents Revenge Division (WARD), organization in ''The Hardy Boys'' graphic novels
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Ward Body Works
Ward Body Works (also known as Ward Industries and Ward School Bus Manufacturing, Inc.) was an American Bus manufacturing, bus manufacturer. Headquartered in Conway, Arkansas, Ward specialized in School bus, yellow school buses, alongside buses ...
, a school bus manufacturer, now IC Bus
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Ward's
Ward's is an American organization that has covered the automotive industry for over a century.
The organization is responsible for several publications including, '' Ward's AutoWorld'', and '' Ward's Dealer Business''. Ward's also publish the ...
, a publisher of ''Ward's AutoWorld'' and ''Ward's Dealer Business''
* Wards Brewing Company, a former English brewery, now a brand operated by Double Maxim Beer Company
* Ward (electric automobile company), an electric truck company from 1914-1937
Law and law enforcement
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Ward (law)
In law, a ward is a minor or incapacitated adult placed under the protection of a legal guardian or government entity, such as a court. Such a person may be referenced as a "ward of the court".
Overview
The wardship jurisdiction is an ancient ju ...
, someone placed under the protection of a legal guardian
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Watchman (law enforcement)
Watchmen were organised groups of men, usually authorised by a state, government, city, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well as traditionally perform the services of public security, public safety, fire looko ...
, a security guard
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Ward (feudal)
In medieval and early modern Europe, a tenant-in-chief (or vassal-in-chief) was a person who held his lands under various forms of feudal land tenure directly from the king or territorial prince to whom he did homage, as opposed to holding the ...
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Justice Ward (disambiguation) Justice Ward may refer to:
* Daniel P. Ward (1918–1995), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois
* Hortense Sparks Ward (1872–1944), special chief justice of a special all-female Texas Supreme Court convened in 1925
* Paul Ward (judg ...
Ward (given name) Ward may refer to:
People
* Ward Armstrong (born 1956), American trial lawyer
* Ward Bennett (1917–2003), American designer, artist and sculptor
* Ward Beysen (1941–2005), Belgian politician and Freemason
* Ward R. Bliss (1855-1905), Penns ...
* Ward, short form of the given names:
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Edward
Edward is an English male name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortunate; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”.
History
The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-S ...
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Howard
Howard is a masculine given name derived from the English surname Howard. ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names'' notes that "the use of this surname as a christian name is quite recent and there seems to be no particular reason for ...
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Hereward
Hereward the Wake (Old English pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɛ.ward/ , modern English pronunciation / ) (also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of E ...
Places
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The Ward, Toronto
The Ward (formally St. John's Ward) was a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many new immigrants first settled in the neighbourhood; it was at the time widely considered a slum.
It was bounded ...
, neighbourhood in central Toronto
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Ward, Castleknock
Ward () is a civil parish in Fingal, Ireland. It is part of the historical barony of Castleknock. The Ward River, the major tributary of the Broadmeadow River, flows through the area, and probably gave the civil parish its name.
Location
The ...
, Ireland
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Ward, New Zealand
Ward is a small town in Marlborough, New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 1, north of Kaikōura. The Flaxbourne River flows past to the north and into the Pacific Ocean at Ward Beach to the south-east of Ward. A current initiative a ...
United States
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Ward, Alabama
Ward is an unincorporated community in Sumter County, Alabama
Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the ...
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Ward, Arkansas
Ward is the third most populous city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 6,052 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Little Rock– North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
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Ward, Colorado
Ward is a home rule municipality in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The population was 128 at the 2020 census. The town is a former mining settlement founded in 1860 in the wake of the discovery of gold at nearby Gold Hill. Once one ...
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Ward, Delaware
Ward is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. in the Little Creek Hundred. The Ward post office was established in 1886, and was discontinued in 1902.
Ward was also the site of the Ward's Store, the Ward's Sch ...
Ward, South Dakota
Ward is a town in Moody County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 34 at the 2020 census.
History
Ward was named after James A. Ward, a railroad promoter and auditor of Dakota Territory from 1887 to 1889.
Geography
According to th ...
Ward, West Virginia
Ward is an unincorporated community and coal town in Kanawha County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United ...
Ward Township, Todd County, Minnesota
Ward Township is a township in Todd County, Minnesota, Todd County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 471 at the 2000 census and 474 at the 2020 census.
Ward Township was organized in 1877, and named after Ward Township, Randolph Coun ...
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Ward Township, Hocking County, Ohio
Ward Township is one of the eleven townships of Hocking County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 1,183.
Geography
Located in the far eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
* Coal Township, ...
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* , a U.S. Navy destroyer
Other
* Ward (magic), a word or symbol supposedly embued with protective magic
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Ward (fencing)
A ward or guard (translating German ''Hut'' "protection") is a defensive position in the German school of swordsmanship
The German school of fencing (') is a system of combat taught in the Holy Roman Empire during the Late Medieval, German Rena ...
, defensive position in the sport of fencing
* Ward (locks), an obstruction preventing the opening of a warded lock
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The Ward (disambiguation) The Ward can refer to:
* Ward (disambiguation)
* ''The Ward'' (film), horror film directed by John Carpenter
* The Ward (2000 video game), point and click adventure video game developed by Fragile Bits
*''Children's Ward'', British children's te ...
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Ward County (disambiguation) Ward County may refer to:
* Ward County, North Dakota
* Ward County, Texas
* Ward County, Queensland
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