Definitions for gendarme

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gendarme gen·darme

Spelling: [zhahn-dahrm; French zhahn-da

IPA: /ˈʒɑn dɑrm; French ʒɑ̃ˈdarm/

Gendarme is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 333 anagrams from letters in gendarme (adeegmnr).

Definitions for gendarme

noun

1. a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
2. a soldier, especially in France, serving in an army group acting as armed police with authority over civilians.
3. (formerly) a cavalryman in charge of a French cavalry squad.

Origin of gendarme

1540-50; Middle French, earlier gens d'armes, alteration of gent d'armes people at arms

Examples for gendarme

The gendarme understood that the man was surrendered to him.

He sat crouched in a corner, like a thief in the presence of a gendarme.

I will show you the pig of a Newfoundlander who half killed a gendarme.

His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.

With that terrible laugh of his, he was wont to remark that he was 'God's gendarme.'

A French gendarme on the case has been dispatched to London, where he will be joined by three additional French investigators.

He was shot at the same time as Silvere by Rengade, the gendarme.

I was there when the gendarme blew his brains out with a pistol.

The widow of the gendarme officer had compassion on his embarrassment.

In September, Francis told the Swiss Guard and the gendarme that the only real threats the Vatican faces are from within.