A room in a hospital usually holding six or more patients, A division of a city or town, especially an electoral district, for administrative and representative purposes, A person under the protection or care of another, transitive verb_ To guard; protect

Of, relating to, or composed of electors

The greater number or part; a number more than half of the total, The political party, group, or faction, The excess of one of two groups of things which have been enumerated over the other_ as, the measure was carried by a majority of twenty votes; his majority was two to one having the most power by virtue of its larger representation or electoral strength