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Sergeant vs Warden - What's the difference?

sergeant | warden |

In surname|lang=en terms the difference between sergeant and warden

is that sergeant is while warden is .

As proper nouns the difference between sergeant and warden

is that sergeant is while warden is .

sergeant

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete) * sergeaunt (obsolete) * serjeant (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia sergeant) (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
  • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=13 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 .}}
  • (legal, historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
  • (Blackstone)
  • (UK, historical)
  • sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon
  • A fish, the cobia.
  • Anagrams

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    warden

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, or, literary) A guard or watchman.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • He called to the warden on the battlements.
  • A chief administrative officer of a prison
  • An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air raid warden
  • A governing official in various institutions
  • the warden of a college
  • (archaic, slang) A variety of pear, thought to be Black Worcester or Parkinson's Warden.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • I would have had him roasted like a warden .
  • * Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
  • I must have saffron the colour of warden pies.

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