Swedish Meaning of sergeant

sergeant

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Definitions and Meaning of sergeant in English

Wordnet

sergeant (n)

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

a lawman with the rank of sergeant

an English barrister of the highest rank

Webster

sergeant (n.)

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.

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.

A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.

A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.

The cobia.

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sergeant

any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal, a lawman with the rank of sergeant, an English barris

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Civil

sergeancy => sergent, sergeancies => sergeants, serge koussevitzky => Sergej Kussevitzky, serge => sergeant, serflike => Trälaktig.,