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SERGEANT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lawman with the rank of sergeant

Synonyms:

police sergeant; sergeant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("sergeant" is a kind of...):

law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sergeant"):

buck sergeant (a sergeant of the lowest rank in the military)

desk sergeant; deskman; station keeper (the police sergeant on duty in a police station)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("sergeant" is a kind of...):

enlisted officer; noncom; noncommissioned officer (a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sergeant"):

color sergeant (a sergeant in a color guard who carries one of the colors)

first sergeant; sergeant first class (a sergeant in the Army above the rank of staff sergeant and below master sergeant)

gunnery sergeant (a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant in the marines)

master sergeant (a senior noncommissioned officer in the Army or Marines)

recruiting-sergeant (a sergeant deputized to enlist recruits)

senior master sergeant; SMSgt (a senior noncommissioned officer in the Air Force with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army)

command sergeant major; sergeant major (a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative officer of a headquarters unit of the Army)

staff sergeant (a noncommissioned officer ranking above corporal and below sergeant first class in the Army or Marines or above airman 1st class in the Air Force)

technical sergeant (a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant in the air force or marines)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An English barrister of the highest rank

Synonyms:

sergeant; sergeant-at-law; serjeant; serjeant-at-law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("sergeant" is a kind of...):

barrister (a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The sergeant had followed us.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Colonel Barclay had married at the time when he was a sergeant, and his wife, whose maiden name was Miss Nancy Devoy, was the daughter of a former colour-sergeant in the same corps.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So ended the day, save that near midnight our friend, the sergeant, called to say that he had seen flickering lights here and there in the windows of the great dark house, but that no one had left it and none had entered.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Barclay, who died the other day, was sergeant in the same company as myself, and the belle of the regiment, ay, and the finest girl that ever had the breath of life between her lips, was Nancy Devoy, the daughter of the colour-sergeant.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)