sentence
[ˈsɛn.tn̩(t)s]
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
noun
A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using, e.g., the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
noun
A formula with no free variables.
Example Sentences
- "The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second."
- "A branch that has played a significant part in the history of its territory is under sentence at the end of the summer timetables, so far as its passenger services are concerned."
- "The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist."
- "The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence."
- "While Christopher Below was released in 2021 after completing his sentence, Hall is currently still serving his life sentence in federal prison for a 1993 kidnapping he confessed to."
- "Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [ˈsɛn.tn̩(t)s]