sentences

Meaning of sentences

noun
  1. The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
    The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
  2. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
    The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
  3. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  4. A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
  5. (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.
    The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
  6. A formula with no free variables.
  7. Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
  8. Sense; meaning; significance.
  9. One's opinion; manner of thinking.
  10. A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
verb
  1. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
    The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
  2. To decree or announce as a sentence.
  3. To utter sententiously.

Information about sentences

  • The singular form of sentences is: sentence.
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Hyphenation of sentences

sen-tences

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • sentences is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

sentences synonyms

Meaning :

conviction, verdict

Anagrams of sentences

senescent

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