sergeant

About 8.79 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
2. noun The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
3. noun A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
4. noun A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.

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

5. noun A bailiff.
6. noun A servant in monastic offices.
7. noun A fish, the píntano (Abudefduf saxatilis), a species of damselfish.
8. noun Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinct from the false sergeants.

Similar words

serjeant police sergeant sergeant-at-law serjeant-at-law lieutenant brigadier soldier sgt constable sarge

Often followed by

and in major of was who had said to

Word family

sergeants