sergeant
/ˈsɑɹ.d͡ʒənt/ sustantivo B2En español: sargento
- A UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
- The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
- A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
- A bailiff.
- A servant in monastic offices.
- A fish, the píntano (Abudefduf saxatilis), a species of damselfish.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinct from the false sergeants.
Plural sergeants
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“Then it has nothing to do with the crime, anyhow,” said the sergeant.
“Do you tell me,” said the sergeant, “that the wedding ring was below the other?”
It was at eleven forty-five that the first alarm reached the small local police station, in charge of Sergeant Wilson of the Sussex Constabulary.
He had hurried back to the house, followed within a few minutes by the police sergeant, who arrived at the scene of the crime a little after twelve o’clock, after taking prompt steps to warn the county authorities that something serious was afoot.
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