policeman

See also: police man

English

A German policeman

Etymology

police +‎ -man

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈliːsmən/

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• Hyphenation: po‧lice‧man

Noun

policeman (plural policemen)

1. A member of a police force, especially one who is male.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

2. (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
3. (entomology) Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.

Synonyms

• (member of a police force): See Thesaurus:police officer
• (glass rod with rubber cap): rubber policeman

Antonyms

• policewoman

Hypernyms

• police officer

Derived terms

• sleeping policeman
• policemanship

Translations

a member of a police force

• Afrikaans: polisieman
• Arabic: شُرْطِيّ (ar) m (šurṭiyy), شُرَطِيّ (ar) m (šuraṭiyy)
• Armenian: ոստիկան (hy) (ostikan)
• Belarusian: паліцэ́йскі m (palicéjski), міліцыя́нт m (milicyjánt)
• Bulgarian: полица́й (bg) m (policáj)
• Chechen: милцо (milco)
• Cherokee: ᏗᏓᏂᏱᏍᎩ (didaniyisgi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 警察 (ging² caat³), 差佬 (caai¹ lou²) (slang)

  Mandarin: 警察 (zh) (jǐngchá), 警官 (zh) (jǐngguān), 警員／警员 (jǐngyuán), 警员 (jǐngyuán)

  Min Nan: 警官 (zh-min-nan) (kéng-koaⁿ), 馬打／马打 (má-tâ) (Singapore, Malaysia)

• Cornish: gwithyas kres m, kreswas m
• Czech: policista (cs) m
• Danish: politimand c
• Dutch: politieagent (nl) m, politieagente (nl) f
• Esperanto: policisto (eo), policano
• Ewe: kpovitɔŋutsu m
• Finnish: poliisi (fi)
• French: policier (fr) m, gendarme (fr) m
• Georgian: პოლიციელი (ṗolicieli)
• German: Polizist (de) m, Polizeibeamter (de) m, Polizeimann m (Switzerland)
• Greek: αστυνομικός (el) m (astynomikós)
• Hebrew: שׁוֹטֵר (he) m (shotér)
• Hindi: पुलिसवाला m (pulisvālā)
• Hungarian: rendőr (hu) m, rendőrnő (hu) f
• Icelandic: lögreglumaður (is) m, (colloquial) lögga (is) f
• Ido: policisto (io)
• Italian: poliziotto (it) m, agente (it) m, gendarme (it) m, carabiniere (it)
• Japanese: 警察官 (ja) (けいさつかん, keisatsukan), 警官 (ja) (けいかん, keikan), お巡り (おまわり, omawari)
• Kalmyk: цагдач (tsagdaç)
• Khmer: ភ្នាក់ងារប៉ូលិស (pneak ngie poolih), តម្រួត (km) (tɑmruət)
• Korean: 경찰관 (ko) (gyeongchalgwan) (警察官 (ko))
• Lao: ຕຳຫຼວດ (lo) (tam lūat)
• Latin: denuntiator m
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• Lower Sorbian: policist m, policaj m, policistka f
• Macedonian: полицаец m (policaec), (obs.) милицаец m (milicaec)
• Maltese: pulizjott m, pulizjotta f, pulizija f
• Navajo: siláo
• Ngarrindjeri: kainggaipari
• Norman: chent'nyi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: politimann m

  Nynorsk: politimann m

• Ojibwe: dakoniwewinini
• Old English: burhweard m, tēoþungmann m
• Persian: پاسبان (fa) (pâsbân)
• Polish: policjant (pl) m
• Portuguese: policial (pt) m
• Romanian: polițist (ro) m
• Russian: полице́йский (ru) m (policéjskij), полисме́н (ru) m (polismén)
• Scottish Gaelic: maor-sìth m, poileas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: полицајац m, полицајка f

  Roman: policajac (sh) m, policajka (sh) f, milicioner m, milicionerka f

• Slovak: policajt (sk) m
• Slovene: policíst m, policístka f, milíčnik m, milíčnica f
• Sotho: lepolesa
• Spanish: policía (es) m or f, agente (es) m or f, agente de policía m or f, pitufo (es) m (Spain, derogatory)
• Swedish: polis (sv) c, polisman (sv) c
• Tagalog: pulis
• Taos: pulísena
• Thai: ตำรวจ (th) (dtam-rùuat)
• Turkish: polis (tr)
• Ukrainian: поліція́нт m (policijánt), поліце́йський m (policéjsʹkyj), міліціоне́р m (milicionér)
• Urdu: پولیس والا m (pulis vālā)
• Vietnamese: cảnh sát (vi) (警察)
• Volapük: (♂♀) poldan (vo), (♂) hipoldan (vo)
• Welsh: heddwas m, plismon (cy) m
• Yiddish: פּאָליציסט m (politsist), פּאָליציאַנט m (politsyant)

Descendants

• → French: policeman
• → Welsh: plismon

See also

• constable

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French

Noun

policeman m (plural policemans)

1. policeman (in Anglophone countries)
   • 1968, Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot, Bonnie And Clyde

     Chaque fois qu'un policeman se fait buter […]