sergeant

sergeant is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery. Face value is 9 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 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
2. noun. In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
3. noun. A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
4. noun. A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
5. noun. The cobia.
6. noun. a lawman with the rank of sergeant
7. noun. any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal
8. noun. an English barrister of the highest rank

   Synonyms: serjeant

Synonyms

serjeant

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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sergeant:

estrange, grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, segreant, sternage

Common word forms

sergeants

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