sergeants
- 1Plural of sergeant.
The battalion's sergeants met before dawn to plan the day's training.
Both sergeants on the night shift were sent to the scene of the crash.
Note
A plain plural whose possessive puts the apostrophe after the s, as in the sergeants' mess. Today sergeants are noncommissioned officers in an army or a police force, but in historical writing the plural can mean lawyers of the highest rank, servants of the sovereign, bailiffs, or servants in a monastery, so an older text may not be about soldiers at all.
sergeants is a form of sergeant
sergeant, noun: A noncommissioned rank in police forces and in armed forces other than navies, the highest in some services; in the British Army, above corporal and below warrant officer. Full entry
- Forms
- sergeantsergeants plural
- Spelling
- sergeant → sergeants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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