sentinels
Meaning of sentinels
plural noun
- a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch.
soldiers stood sentinel with their muskets
- an indicator of the presence of disease.
a sentinel surveillance programme for influenza
- station a soldier or guard by (a place) to keep watch.
a wide course had been roped off and sentinelled with police
late 16th century: from French sentinelle, from Italian sentinella, of unknown origin.
Information about sentinels
- The singular form of sentinels is: sentinel.
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Hyphenation of sentinels
sen-tinels
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- sentinels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with sentinels
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