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serjeant-at-arms

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English

Syllables
ser-jean-t-at-arms
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Archaic spelling of sergeant-at-arms (“person who keeps order at a meeting”).

Archaic

noun

An officer who attends upon the Lord Chancellor with the mace, and who executes various writs of process in the course of a Chancery suit.

British usage

noun

A similar officer who attends on each House of Parliament, and arrests any person ordered by the House to be arrested. The post still exists with respect to the UK House of Commons, but is largely ceremonial.

British usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

serjeants-at-arms (plural)

Phrases

sergeant-at-arms

Frequently Paired Words

sergeant-at-arms

Synonyms

sergeant at arms

Questions

What does serjeant-at-arms mean?
Archaic spelling of sergeant-at-arms (“person who keeps order at a meeting”).

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