Dictionary Entry
marshal
marshal is a 7-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.
- 2noun
An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like
- 3noun
One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.
- 4noun
One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.
- 5noun
The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists.
- 6noun
The highest military officer.
- 7noun
A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city.
- 8transitive verb
To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army.
- 9transitive verb
To direct, guide, or lead.
- 10transitive verb
To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.
- 11noun
a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law
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- 12noun
(in some countries) a military officer of highest rank
Synonyms
- 13verb
make ready for action or use
"marshal resources"
- 14verb
arrange in logical order
"marshal facts or arguments"
- 15verb
place in proper rank
"marshal the troops"
- 16verb
lead ceremoniously, as in a procession
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