Sergeant vs Segreant - What's the difference?
sergeant | segreant |
UK army rank with NATO code , senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
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, chapter=13 (legal, historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
(UK, historical)
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(heraldry) A posture of winged quadrupeds, a shorthand for "rampant, wings elevated and addorsed".
As a proper noun sergeant
is .As an adjective segreant is
(heraldry) a posture of winged quadrupeds, a shorthand for "rampant, wings elevated and addorsed".sergeant
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * sergeaunt (obsolete) * serjeant (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia sergeant) (en noun)citation, passage=“Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant .}}
- (Blackstone)
- sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon