Meaning

3 senses
  1. A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.

    Gendarm

    жанда́рмžandárm

    жанда́рмžandárm

  2. A policeman.

    a French policeman

  3. A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. The volunteer deputy gendarme serves for a fixed term within operational or support units.

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  2. Ziri is a gendarme.

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  3. Ziri became a gendarme.

    ruЗири стал жандармом.

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  4. The gendarme trainee undergoes initial training at the gendarmerie school before being assigned to a brigade.

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  5. Gendarmes are human, too.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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member of the gendarmerie:
Русский
By meaning 1
member of the gendarmerie:
Deutsch
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member of the gendarmerie:

Origin

Borrowed from French gendarme, a back-formation from gendarmes, from gens d'armes (“people

Borrowed from French gendarme, a back-formation from gendarmes, from gens d'armes (“people of arms, armed people”), from gens + d' + armes.

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Forms

plural: gendarmes / gensdarmes
Singulargendarme
Pluralgendarmes / gensdarmes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
police officer:police officerA2

Word family

1 related words
Derivedgendarmish

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gendarme — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto