What does Sergeant mean?
Definitions for Sergeant
ˈsɑr dʒəntSergeant
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Princeton's WordNet
sergeant(noun)
any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal
police sergeant, sergeant(noun)
a lawman with the rank of sergeant
serjeant-at-law, serjeant, sergeant-at-law, sergeant(noun)
an English barrister of the highest rank
Wiktionary
sergeant(Noun)
UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
Etymology: From sergeant, sergeaunt, serjent, serjaunt, serjawnt, sergant, from sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant, from servientem, accusative of serviens, from serviens, present participle of servio. More at servant.
sergeant(Noun)
The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
Etymology: From sergeant, sergeaunt, serjent, serjaunt, serjawnt, sergant, from sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant, from servientem, accusative of serviens, from serviens, present participle of servio. More at servant.
Webster Dictionary
Sergeant(noun)
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
Etymology: [F. sergent, fr. L. serviens, -entis, p. pr. of servire to serve. See Serve, and cf. Servant.]
Sergeant(noun)
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
Etymology: [F. sergent, fr. L. serviens, -entis, p. pr. of servire to serve. See Serve, and cf. Servant.]
Sergeant(noun)
a lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law
Etymology: [F. sergent, fr. L. serviens, -entis, p. pr. of servire to serve. See Serve, and cf. Servant.]
Sergeant(noun)
a title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon
Etymology: [F. sergent, fr. L. serviens, -entis, p. pr. of servire to serve. See Serve, and cf. Servant.]
Sergeant(noun)
the cobia
Etymology: [F. sergent, fr. L. serviens, -entis, p. pr. of servire to serve. See Serve, and cf. Servant.]
Freebase
Sergeant
Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term sergent. In most armies the rank of sergeant is classified by NATO as OR-5 and corresponds to command of a squad. In Commonwealth armies, it is a more senior rank OR-6, corresponding roughly to a platoon second-in-command. In the United States Army, sergeant is a more junior rank corresponding to a four-man fireteam leader, while still equivalent to OR-5. More senior non-commissioned ranks are often variations on sergeant, for instance staff sergeant, regimental sergeant major, sergeant first class, master sergeant, first sergeant and sergeant major. The spelling "serjeant" is used in a few regiments of the British Army.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sergeant
Serjeant, sär′jent, n. a non-commissioned officer of the army and marines next above a corporal, overlooking the soldiers in barracks, and assisting the officers in all ways in the field: a bailiff: a constable: a servant in monastic offices: a police-officer of superior rank.—ns. Ser′geancy, Ser′geantcy, Ser′geantship, office of a sergeant; Ser′geant-at-arms, an officer of a legislative body for keeping order, &c.; Ser′geant-fish, the cobra, so called from the lateral stripes; Ser′geant-mā′jor, the highest non-commissioned officer, employed to assist the adjutant: the cow-pilot, a fish; Ser′geantry, Ser′geanty, a kind of feudal tenure on condition of service due to the king only; Ser′jeant-at-arms, an officer who attends upon the Lord Chancellor with the mace, and who executes various writs of process in the course of a Chancery suit: a similar officer who attends on each House of Parliament, and arrests any person ordered by the House to be arrested; Ser′jeant-at-law, formerly in England the highest degree of barrister, once with exclusive audience in the Court of Common Pleas, their proper dress a violet-coloured robe with a scarlet hood, and a black coif, represented in modern times by a patch of silk at the top of the wig.—Grand sergeanty, a tenure of lands by special honorary service to the king; Petit sergeanty, a tenure of lands by a rent or tender. [Fr. sergent—L. serviens, -entis, pr.p. of servīre, to serve.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
sergeant
The senior non-commissioned rank in the army and marines.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
sergeant
A non-commissioned officer in a company, battery, or troop, usually selected from among the corporals on account of his general intelligence and good conduct. He is vested with the command of small detachments, and sometimes with his company in the absence of his superior officers.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Sergeant' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3720
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Sergeant' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3576
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Sergeant' in Nouns Frequency: #1461
Anagrams for Sergeant »
estrange, grantees, greatens, reagents, rentages, segreant, sternage
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Sergeant in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Sergeant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Sergeant in a Sentence
Sergeant Hutchins was out there to do his job, to execute his mission and to bring his men home alive, political and diplomatic pressure to make a fall guy on this case, right after Haditha, was palpable.
Dickson County Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe:
There's not much I can say today other than our hearts are shattered, this is one of our best deputies. He's a supervisor. He's worked his way up to sergeant on patrol. He's one of the guys who puts it on the line every day to keep our community safe.
There has been a pattern here that is so extensive that it has certainly raised in the mind of the defense team whether Sergeant Bergdahl's right to a fair trial has been irreparably compromised by Mr. Trump's comments.
Mike Nelson told the Times. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Clay Martin, a retired Army Special Forces sergeant first class, told the paper that The Army should have waited to see if Mathew Golsteyn was convicted before taking Mathew Golsteyn awards. I honestly think Clay Martin would have won at court martial as well.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo:
I don't want to hear about how much they support law enforcement, i don't want to hear about how much they care about lives and the sanctity of lives yet, we all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and( Texas Sens.) John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women's Act( passed) is because the NRA doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. And who killed our sergeant ? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the( National Rifle Association).
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- شاويشArabic
- četařCzech
- sergentDanish
- StabsunteroffizierGerman
- λοχίαςGreek
- serĝentoEsperanto
- sargentoSpanish
- kersanttiFinnish
- sergentFrench
- sarxentoGalician
- סָמַלHebrew
- szakaszvezetőHungarian
- sersanIndonesian
- sergenteItalian
- 軍曹Japanese
- 중사Korean
- servusLatin
- haihanaMāori
- наредник, водникMacedonian
- sarjanMalay
- sersjantNorwegian
- sergeantDutch
- sersjantNorwegian Nynorsk
- sierżantPolish
- sargentoPortuguese
- sergentRomanian
- сержантRussian
- vodnik, narednik, narednicaSerbo-Croatian
- vódnica, vódnikSlovene
- sergeantSwedish
- çavuşTurkish
- סערזשאַנטYiddish
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