SERGEANT
\sˈɑːd͡ʒənt], \sˈɑːdʒənt], \s_ˈɑː_dʒ_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of SERGEANT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
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A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
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A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; - called also serjeant at law.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
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A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; - called also serjeant at law.
By Noah Webster.
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A noncommissioned army officer ranking next above a corporal, whose work is to train recruits, form the ranks, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A non-commissioned officer in the army, in rank next above a corporal; a lawyer of the highest rank next to a judge.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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n. [Latin] Formerly, an officer in England nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred;-a non-commissioned officer next in rank above the 'corporal, in a company of infantry or troop of cavalry, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline;-to form the ranks, &c.;-a lawyer of the highest rank-written also Serjeant.
