Meaning

10 senses
  1. (dated)The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

    The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.

    Urteil

    пригово́рprigovór

    ви́рокvýrok, при́судprýsud, при́говорprýhovor

  2. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

    The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.

    Verurteilung, Schuldspruch

    осужде́ниеosuždénije

    ви́рокvýrok, при́судprýsud, осу́дженняosúdžennja

    (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed

  3. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

    Strafe

    наказа́ниеnakazánije

    ви́рокvýrok, ка́раkára

  4. A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using, e.g., the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.

    Near-synonym: clause

    The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.

    Satz

    предложе́ниеpredložénije, фра́заfráza

    ре́ченняréčennja, фра́заfráza

  5. A formula with no free variables.

  6. Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

  7. (obsolete)A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.

    сенте́нцияsentɛ́ncija, изрече́ниеizrečénije

  8. (obsolete)Sense; meaning; significance.

  9. (obsolete)One's opinion; manner of thinking.

  10. (archaic)A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

    выска́зываниеvyskázyvanije, мне́ниеmnénije

Examples

3591 sentences
  1. Make this sentence a little shorter.

    Зроби це речення трохи коротшим. — deniko

    ruСделайте это предложение немного короче. — fjay69

    deVerkürze diesen Satz ein bisschen. — MUIRIEL

  2. Please explain this sentence to me.

    Будь ласка, поясніть мені це речення. — deniko

    ruПожалуйста, объясни мне эту фразу. — odexed

    deBitte erklär mir diesen Satz! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom is serving a life sentence.

    Том відбуває довічне ув'язнення. — deniko

    ruТом отбывает пожизненное заключение. — sharptoothed

    deTom sitzt eine lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe ab. — Yorwba

  4. The teacher made me repeat the sentence.

    Вчитель примусив мене повторити речення. — deniko

    deDer Lehrer ließ mich den Satz wiederholen. — Manfredo

  5. You must begin a sentence with a capital letter.

    Речення треба починати писати з великої літери. — aandrusiak

    ruПредложение должно начинаться с заглавной буквы. — tien_oroniel

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 4
(dated) decision or judgement of a court — see also judgment, verdict:
judicial order for punishment:
punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime — see also punishment:
grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate:
Русский
By meaning 6
(dated) decision or judgement of a court — see also judgment, verdict:
judicial order for punishment:
punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime — see also punishment:
saying, especially from a great person:
grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate:
(rare) someone's pronounced opinion or judgement on a given question:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
(dated) decision or judgement of a court — see also judgment, verdict:
judicial order for punishment:
punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime — see also punishment:
grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sen

Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).

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Forms

plural: sentences
Singularsentence
Pluralsentences

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

47 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • was sentenced to
  • sentenced to death
  • a life sentence
  • translate this sentence
  • sentenced to life
  • life sentence
  • sentenced to three
  • rewrite this sentence
  • has been sentenced
  • of this sentence
  • three year sentence
  • the judge sentenced

See also

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