Constituency vs. Ward — What's the Difference?

The body of voters or the residents of a district represented by an elected legislator or official.

A division of a city or town, especially an electoral district, for administrative and representative purposes.

The district so represented.

A room in a hospital usually holding six or more patients.

A group of supporters or patrons.

A division in a hospital for the care of a particular group of patients

A group served by an organization or institution; a clientele

A district of some English and Scottish counties corresponding roughly to the hundred or the wapentake.

(politics) A district represented by one or more elected officials.

One of the divisions of a penal institution, such as a prison.

(collective) The voters within such a district.

An open court or area of a castle or fortification enclosed by walls.

(collective) The residents of such a district.

(Law) A minor or a person deemed legally incompetent.

(collective) The voters of a candidate.

A person under the protection or care of another.

An interest group or fan base.

The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship.

A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.

The act of keeping watch or being a lookout.

The body of voters who elect a representative for their area

The state of being under guard; custody.

A defensive movement or attitude, especially in fencing; a guard.

The projecting ridge of a lock or keyhole that prevents the turning or insertion of a key other than the proper one.

The notch cut into a key that corresponds to such a ridge.

To guard; protect.

A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.

Protection, defence.

(obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.

The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance keep ward etc.}}

Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.

An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.

Land tenure through military service.

(fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.

A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.

An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.

A section or subdivision of a prison.

An administrative division of a borough, city or council.

(UK) A division of a forest.

(Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.

A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.

A person under guardianship.

A minor looked after by a guardian.

(obsolete) An underage orphan.

An object used for guarding.

The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.

(transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.

(transitive) To defend, to protect.

(transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches off}}

(intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.

(intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.

The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.

A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.

One who, or that which, is guarded.

A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.

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.

A division of a county.

A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.

A division of a forest.

A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.

To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.

To defend; to protect.

To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.

To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; - usually followed by off.

To be vigilant; to keep guard.

To act on the defensive with a weapon.

A person who is under the protection or in the custody of another

A district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections

Block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care;

English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)

English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)

United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)

A division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)

Watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect;