sergeant

See also: Sergeant

English

Alternative forms

• serjant (obsolete)
• sergeaunt (obsolete)
• serjeant (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sergeant, sergeaunt, serjent, serjaunt, serjawnt, sergant, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant ‎(“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem, accusative of serviens ‎(“a servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin serviēns ‎(“serving”), present participle of serviō ‎(“serve, be a slave to”). More at servant.

For the "er" being pronounced IPA^(key): /ɑɹ/, see also clerk, derby, varsity.

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːdʒənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑɹdʒənt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒənt

Noun

Wikipedia

sergeant ‎(plural sergeants)

1. 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.
   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!^[1]:

     “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.

3. (law, historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)

4. (Britain, 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.

Translations

non-commissioned officer rank

• Bulgarian: сержант m ‎(seržant)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍士, 军士 (zh) ‎(jūnshì), 警官 (zh) ‎(jǐngguān), (police sergeant, in Hong Kong) 沙展 ‎(shāzhǎn)

• Czech: četař (cs) m
• Danish: sergent c
• Dutch: sergeant (nl)
• Esperanto: serĝento
• Finnish: kersantti (fi)
• French: sergent (fr)
• Galician: sarxento m
• German: Stabsunteroffizier (de)
• Greek: λοχίας (el) m, f ‎(lochías)
• Hebrew: סָמַל (he)
• Hungarian: szakaszvezető (hu)
• Indonesian: sersan (id)
• Irish: sáirsint m
• Italian: sergente (it)
• Japanese: 軍曹 (ja) ‎(ぐんそう, gunsō)

• Norman: sèrgent m
• Korean: 중사 ‎(jungsa)
• Macedonian: водник m ‎(vódnik), наредник m ‎(nárednik)
• Malay: sarjan
• Maori: haihana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sersjant m

  Nynorsk: sersjant m

• Polish: sierżant (pl) m
• Portuguese: sargento (pt)
• Romanian: sergent (ro) m
• Russian: сержа́нт (ru) m ‎(seržánt)
• Serbo-Croatian: narednik (sh) m, narednica (sh) f, vodnik (sh) m
• Slovene: vódnik m, vódnica f
• Spanish: sargento (es) m
• Swedish: sergeant (sv)
• Turkish: çavuş (tr)
• Ukrainian: сержант m ‎(seržant)

Related terms

• sergeant baker
• sarge

Anagrams

• estrange, grantees, greatens, reagents, rentages, segreant, sternage