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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)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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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
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1. (noun) sergeant
a rank of military officer an ordinary soldier can be promoted to
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Webster Dictionary |
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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
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Sense: in the British army or air force, the rank above corporal
Sergeant Brown.
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 Afrikaans: sersant |
 Arabic: رُتْبَة رَقيب في الجَيْش |
 Bulgarian: сержант |
 Brazilian: sargento |
 Czech: seržant, četař |
 German: der Feldwebel |
 Danish: sergent |
 Greek: λοχίας |
 Spanish: sargento |
 Estonian: seersant |
 Farsi: سرپاسبان |
 Finnish: kersantti |
 French: sergent/-ente |
 Hebrew: סַמָל |
 Hindi: सारजेंट |
 Croatian: narednik, prvi dočasnik |
 Hungarian: őrmester |
 Indonesian: sersan |
 Icelandic: liðþjálfi |
 Italian: sergente |
 Japanese: 軍曹 |
 Korean: 하사관 |
 Lithuanian: seržantas |
 Latvian: seržants |
 Malay: Sarjan |
 Dutch: sergeant |
 Norwegian: sersjant |
 Polish: starszy posterunkowy |
 Persian: سرپاسبان |
 Pashto: حوالدار (دپوليسو) ډلګۍ مش |
 Portuguese: sargento |
 Romanian: sergent |
 Russian: сержант |
 Slovak: seržant, čatár |
 Slovenian: narednik |
 Serbian: narednik |
 Swedish: sergeant |
 Thai: สิบเอก |
 Turkish: üstçavuş |
 Taiwanese: (英國陸軍或空軍)中士 |
 Ukrainian: сержант |
 Urdu: بری فوج یا ہوائی فوج کا غ |
 Vietnamese: trung sĩ |
 Chinese: （英陆军或空军）中士 |
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