Definition of sergeant
English to English noun - any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal
source: WordNet 3.0 - a lawman with the rank of sergeant
source: WordNet 3.0 - an English barrister of the highest rank
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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.
source: Webster 1913 English to Tagalog noun - [sérdchent] Sarhento
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
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sergeanty, serjeant, sargent, surgent, scherzando, sarcenet, sarsenet, scrag end, scarcement, square knot, seriocomedy, sugar candy, serious-minded
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