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sergeant

Pronunciation: /ˈsɑː.d͡ʒənt/

The English word “sergeant” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
  2. The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
  3. A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
  4. A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.
  5. A bailiff.
  6. A servant in monastic offices.
  7. A fish, the píntano (Abudefduf saxatilis), a species of damselfish.
  8. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinct from the false sergeants.

Etymology

From Middle English sergeant, sergeaunt, serjent, serjaunt, serjawnt, sergant, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem, accusative of serviēns (“a servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin serviēns (“serving”), present participle of serviō (“serve, be a slave to”). Doublet of servant and servient. The shift from…

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