| Sergeant 1. (n.) A noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc. 2. (n.) 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. 3. (n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also sergeant at law. 4. (n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon. 5. (n.) The cobia. Thesaurus Entries G-man, MP, NCO, acting corporal, acting sergeant, bailiff, beadle, beagle, bound bailiff, captain, catchpole, centurion, chief of police, chief warrant officer, color sergeant, commissioner, constable, corporal, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, fed, federal, first sergeant, flic, gendarme, government man, havildar, inspector, lance corporal, lance sergeant, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, marshal, master sergeant, mess sergeant, mounted policeman, naik, narc, noncom, noncommissioned officer, officer, patrolman, peace officer, platoon sergeant, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, reeve, roundsman, sarge, sergeant at arms, sergeant first class, sergeant major, sheriff, staff sergeant, superintendent, technical sergeant, tipstaff, tipstaves, top sergeant, topkick, trooper, warrant officer |