noun The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
noun 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.
noun A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
noun A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
noun 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.
The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
noun A formula with no free variables.
noun Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.