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Warrior vs Sentinel - What's the difference?

warrior | sentinel |

As nouns the difference between warrior and sentinel

is that warrior is a person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant while sentinel is a sentry or guard.

As a verb sentinel is

to watch over as a guard.

warrior

English

Alternative forms

* warriour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia warrior)
  • A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
  • *
    • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior ; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • (lb) A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.

    • Related terms

    * war

    Derived terms

    * bloody warrior * warriorhood

    References

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    sentinel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sentry or guard.
  • * 1719-
    • They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the entrance.
  • * Macaulay
    • the sentinels who paced the ramparts
  • (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
    • The ''<nowiki>'' tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally.
  • Watch; guard.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • that princes do keep due sentinel
  • A sentinel crab.

    • Verb

  • To watch over as a guard.
    • He sentineled the north wall.
  • To post as guard.
    • He sentineled him on the north wall.
  • To post a guard for.
    • He sentineled the north wall with just one man.