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sergeant
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sergeant \Ser"geant\, n. [F. sergent, fr. L. serviens, -entis, p. pr. of servire to serve. See Serve , and cf. Servant .] [Written also serjeant . Both spellings are authorized. In England serjeant is usually preferred, except for military officers. In ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the army or air force or marines ranking above a corporal a lawman with the rank of sergeant [syn: police sergeant ] an English barrister of the highest rank [syn: serjeant-at-law , serjeant , sergeant-at-law ...
Usage examples of sergeant.
Captain Nekrasov refused to accommodate me, but his sergeant proved far more generous with the facts.
With officers, sergeants, and corporals amplifying the simple command, the 47th North Carolina became a long gray serpent that wound its way out of the encampment, as if shedding a confining winter skin, and tramped north up the road toward Orange Court House.
Sergeant Shankey was arriving at just that moment to relieve the misfortunate Turner.
We were ambushed, and the Sergeant got a bad hurt, and would have lost his scalp, but for a sort of inbred turn I took to the weapon.
God send that the lad may not run alongside of the bank, and fall into an ambushment, as befell the Sergeant!
Major Banning be there if he knew it was Gunnery Sergeant Zimmerman calling?
Sergeant Zimmerman is calling for either Major Banning or Captain McCoy.
Four men--two Romanian privates, an Italian Bersagliere sergeant and a man in full evening dress--came staggering along with a sedan chair the size of a compartment in a railway carriage between them.
Sergeant Blane leapt in with his platoon and sealed the event, blasting left and right with his lasgun as his men charged, bayonets first.
He told her about the effort to find the Kanitewa boy to keep his Navajo grandmother happy, and what had happened, and about Chee going back with Sergeant Blizzard, the cop from the BIA.
Ford Escort, parked fifth row from the screen with pickup trucks on both sides of them, with Janet sitting beside him and Sergeant Harold Blizzard hulking over them in the backseat.
Before three short months had passed, Sergeant Campbell and Miss Bloomer observed more than once the finger of scorn pointed at them.
The bonze muttered the shortest prayer that I had ever heard, and the sergeant at arms asked if the victim had any last words.
His neck lay on the block, and the bonze mumbled a prayer, and the sergeant at arms asked if he had any last words.
Driscoll, who was sergeant of the guard, came from the door as Brigg reached it.