Dictionary Entry
sentinel
sentinel is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 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 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
- 2noun
Watch; guard.
- 3noun
A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
- 4transitive verb
To watch over like a sentinel.
- 5transitive verb
To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
- 6noun
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
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