Definitions for Sergeant

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Sergeant ser·geant

Spelling: [sahr-juh nt]

IPA: /ˈsɑr dʒənt/

Sergeant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 424 anagrams from letters in Sergeant (aeegnrst).

Definitions for Sergeant

noun

1. a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
2. U.S. Air Force. any noncommissioned officer above the rank of airman first class.
3. a police officer ranking immediately below a captain or a lieutenant in the U.S. and immediately below an inspector in Britain.
4. a title of a particular office or function at the court of a monarch (often used in combination):
5. sergeant at arms.
6. Also called sergeant at law. British. (formerly) a member of a superior order of barristers.
7. sergeantfish.
8. (initial capital letter) a surface-to-surface, single-stage, U.S. ballistic missile.
9. a tenant by military service, below the rank of knight.
10. a member of the royal house of England that ruled from 1461 to 1485.
11. 1st Duke of (Edmund of Langley) 1341–1402, progenitor of the house of York (son of Edward III).
12. Alvin Cullum [kuhl-uh m] /ˈkʌl əm/ (Show IPA), (Sergeant) 1887–1964, U.S. soldier.
13. Yorkshire (def 1).
14. Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
15. a city in SE Pennsylvania: meeting of the Continental Congress 1777–78.
16. an estuary in E Virginia, flowing SE into Chesapeake Bay. 40 miles (64 km) long.
17. Cape, a cape at the NE extremity of Australia.

Origin of Sergeant

1150-1200; Middle English sergant, serjant, serjaunt Old French sergent Latin servient- (stem of serviēns), present participle of servīre. See serve, Examples for Sergeant

Then he turned to the sergeant, who was smoking philosophically.

"We're beaten, it seems, already," he cried to the sergeant.

One sergeant is quoted saying that Garner “did not appear to be in great distress.”

The contemporary Luz James, a military brat, lives with her sergeant mother.

A sergeant from the Directorate General of Prisons, Mina Olmedo, was shot and killed, and eleven other guards were badly injured.

He asked for a corporal or a sergeant who could write and stand fire at the same time.

sergeant Wilde was met on his entry into the town by almost the whole population.

“Stay in formation,” a sergeant from the ceremonial unit said over a public address system to the cops along the street.

We would do anything in our power for sergeant Wilde and for the cause, but we cannot starve!'

A squad soon arrived to take him away, and I saw the sergeant punch him in the face even though he went quietly.