sentence

sentence is a 8-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sense; meaning; significance. Face value is 10 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.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Sense; meaning; significance.
2. noun. An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
3. noun. A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
4. noun. In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
5. noun. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
6. noun. A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
7. transitive verb. To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
8. transitive verb. To decree or announce as a sentence.
9. transitive verb. To utter sententiously.
10. noun. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed

    "the conviction came as no surprise"

    Synonyms: condemnation, conviction

11. noun. a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language

    "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"

12. noun. the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned

    "he served a prison term of 15 months"

    "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"

    Synonyms: time

13. verb. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law

    "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

    Synonyms: condemn, doom

Synonyms

condemnation, conviction, time, condemn, doom

Common word forms

sentenced, sentencer, sentences, sentencing

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