Ward

Ward may refer to:

Division or unit

• 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 of hospital ward
• Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a prison
• Ward (electoral subdivision), electoral district or unit of local government
• Ward (fortification), part of a castle
• Ward (LDS Church), a local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Ward (Vietnam), a type of second-tier subdivision of Vietnam
• Wards of Japan, a subdivision of a large city

Businesses and organizations

• WARD (FM), a radio station (91.9 FM) licensed to serve New Paris, Ohio, United States; see List of radio stations in Ohio
• WOUF (AM), 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
• Ward Body Works, a school bus manufacturer, now IC Bus
• Ward's, 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 to 1937

Law and law enforcement

• Ward (law), someone placed under the protection of a legal guardian
• Watchman (law enforcement), a security guard
• Ward (feudal)
• Justice Ward (disambiguation)

Names

• Ward (surname)
• Ward (given name)
• Ward, short form of the given names:
  • Edward
  • Howard
  • Hereward

Places

• The Ward, Toronto, neighbourhood in central Toronto
• Ward, Castleknock, Ireland
• Ward, New Zealand

United States

• Ward, Alabama
• Ward, Arkansas
• Ward, Colorado
• Ward, Delaware
• Ward, Indiana
• Ward, New York
• Ward, South Carolina
• Ward, South Dakota
• Ward, Washington
• Ward, West Virginia
• Ward Reservation, Massachusetts
• Ward Township, Randolph County, Indiana
• Ward Township, Todd County, Minnesota
• Ward Township, Hocking County, Ohio
• Ward Township, Pennsylvania

Vessels

• USS Aaron Ward, various United States Navy destroyers
• USS Ward (DD-139), a U.S. Navy destroyer

Other

• Ward (magic), a word or symbol supposedly embued with protective magic
• Ward (fencing), defensive position in the sport of fencing
• Ward (locks), an obstruction preventing the opening of a warded lock
• The Ward (disambiguation)
• Ward County (disambiguation)
• "Ward", by C418 from Minecraft - Volume Beta, 2013

See also

• All pages with titles containing Ward