sergeant

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see also: Sergeant

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈsɑː.dʒənt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈsɑɹ.dʒənt/

Noun

sergeant (plural sergeants)

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

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

5. A fish, the cobia.
6. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants.
7. A bailiff.
8. A servant in monastic offices.

Related terms

• sergeant baker
• sarge

Translations

• French: sergent
• German: Stabsunteroffizier
• Italian: sergente
• Portuguese: sargento
• Russian: сержа́нт
• Spanish: sargento

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Sergeant

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Proper noun

1. Surname for a servant.

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