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 Definitions of sergeant  [ˈsɑr dʒənt]  

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Definition of 'sergeant' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) sergeant
a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps ranking above a corporal.

2.  sergeant
an officer of similar rank in the armed services of other countries.

3.  sergeant
any noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force above the rank of airman first class or senior airman.

4.  sergeant
a police officer ranking immediately below a captain or a lieutenant in the U.S. and immediately below an inspector in Britain.

5.  sergeant
an officer at the court of a monarch:
sergeant of the larder.

6.  sergeant
(formerly) a tenant by military service, below the rank of knight.

Etymology:  (1150–1200; < OF sergent < L servientem, acc. of serviēns, prp. of servīre. See serve , -ent)

Definition of 'sergeant' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) sergeant
any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal

2. (noun) police sergeant, sergeant
a lawman with the rank of sergeant

3. (noun) serjeant-at-law, serjeant, sergeant-at-law, sergeant
an English barrister of the highest rank


Definition of 'sergeant' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) sergeant
a rank of military officer an ordinary soldier can be promoted to


Definition of 'sergeant' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) sergeant
formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery

2. (noun) sergeant
in a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc

3. (noun) sergeant
a lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law

4. (noun) sergeant
a title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon

5. (noun) sergeant
the cobia


Translation of 'sergeant' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: in the British army or air force, the rank above corporal
Sergeant Brown.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: sersant Arabic flag Arabic: رُتْبَة رَقيب في الجَيْش Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: сержант
Brazilian flag Brazilian: sargento Czech flag Czech: seržant, četař German flag German: der Feldwebel
Danish flag Danish: sergent Greek flag Greek: λοχίας Spanish flag Spanish: sargento
Estonian flag Estonian: seersant Farsi flag Farsi: سرپاسبان Finnish flag Finnish: kersantti
French flag French: sergent/-ente Hebrew flag Hebrew: סַמָל Hindi flag Hindi: सारजेंट
Croatian flag Croatian: narednik, prvi dočasnik Hungarian flag Hungarian: őrmester Indonesian flag Indonesian: sersan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: liðþjálfi Italian flag Italian: sergente Japanese flag Japanese: 軍曹
Korean flag Korean: 하사관 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: seržantas Latvian flag Latvian: seržants
Malay flag Malay: Sarjan Dutch flag Dutch: sergeant Norwegian flag Norwegian: sersjant
Polish flag Polish: starszy posterunkowy Persian flag Persian: سرپاسبان Pashto flag Pashto: حوالدار (دپوليسو) ډلګۍ مش
Portuguese flag Portuguese: sargento Romanian flag Romanian: sergent Russian flag Russian: сержант
Slovak flag Slovak: seržant, čatár Slovenian flag Slovenian: narednik Serbian flag Serbian: narednik
Swedish flag Swedish: sergeant Thai flag Thai: สิบเอก Turkish flag Turkish: üstçavuş
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (英國陸軍或空軍)中士 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: сержант Urdu flag Urdu: بری فوج یا ہوائی فوج کا غ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: trung sĩ Chinese flag Chinese: (英陆军或空军)中士

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