sentry
Meaning of sentry
noun
- a soldier stationed to keep guard or to control access to a place.
sentries patrolled the border
on sentry duty
two men stood sentry on the door every evening
early 17th century: perhaps from obsolete centrinel, variant of sentinel.
Information about sentry
- It is a name.
- The plural form of sentry is: sentries.
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Hyphenation of sentry
sen-try
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- sentry is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
sentry synonyms
Meaning lookout:
lookout, sentinel, watch, spotter, scout, picket
Meaning a person who keeps watch, especially a soldier or other person assigned to protect a person or to control access to a place:
Meaning a man employed to look after an empty building, especially at night:
Meaning a routine operational voyage of a ship or aircraft:
Meaning a mounted sentry positioned beyond an army's outposts to observe the movements of the enemy:
Words that rhyme with sentry
Bantry, Gantry, Infantry, Lantry, chantry, elephantry, errantry, gallantry, gantry, giantry, infantry, ingallantry, kantry, lieutenantry, merchantry, noninfantry, pageantry, pantry, peasantry, pedantry, pheasantry, pleasantry, sergeantry, serjeantry, servantry, sycophantry, tenantry, truantry, unpleasantry, vacantry, Centry, Coventry, Daventry, Gentry, adventry, agentry, ancientry, argentry, carpentry, centry, clientry, componentry, counterentry, coventry, entry, gentry, misentry, nonentry, outsentry, overentry
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