Meaning

8 senses
  1. A UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.

    any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal

  2. The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.

    Stabsunteroffizier, Feldwebel

    сержа́нтseržánt

    сержа́нтseržánt

    an English barrister of the highest rank

  3. (historical)A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.

  4. (UK, historical)A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.

    sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon

  5. A bailiff.

  6. A servant in monastic offices.

  7. A fish, the píntano (Abudefduf saxatilis), a species of damselfish.

  8. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinct from the false sergeants.

Examples

25 sentences
  1. A captain is above a sergeant.

    ruКапитан выше сержанта.

    deEin Hauptmann ist mehr als ein Sergeant.

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  2. I'm still a sergeant.

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  3. Tom became a police sergeant.

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  4. Tom is a police sergeant.

    deTom ist ein Polizeiobermeister.

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  5. Sergeant Jackson has called for reinforcements.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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noncommissioned officer rank:
Русский
By meaning 1
noncommissioned officer rank:
Deutsch
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noncommissioned officer rank:

Origin

From Middle English sergeant, sergeaunt, serjent, serjaunt, serjawnt, sergant, from Old Fr

From Middle English sergeant, sergeaunt, serjent, serjaunt, serjawnt, sergant, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem, accusative of serviēns (“a servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin serviēns (“serving”), present participle of serviō (“serve, be a slave to”). Doublet of servant and servient.

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