sentence

Meaning

Noun

1. (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
2. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
3. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
4. (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
5. 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.
6. A formula with no free variables.
7. Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
8. (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
9. (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
10. (archaic) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

Verb

1. (transitive) To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
2. (especially, poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
3. (obsolete) To utter sententiously.

Synonyms

condemn

doom

phrase

judgement

verdict

clause

convict

judge

🧑‍⚖️

word

penalty

conviction

condemnation

decree

punishment

speech

punish

decision

judgment

penalize

saying

statement

verse

words

few words

find guilty

utterance

pronouncement

discipline

remark

judgment of conviction

decide

adjudicate

issue judgement against

deliver judgement

tell

call

time

⌚

adjudge

reprobate

retribution

adage

dictum

determination

pronounce

ruling

maxim

line

order

denounce

expression

Translations

phrase

Satz

frase

frase

sentenza

condamner

sentencia

zin

verurteilen

condannare

condena

sentence

frase

condenar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛntəns/

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”).

Sentences

If you just finished speaking this sentence , click the red button below to stop recording .

There seems to be a sentence or paragraph missing on page three .

Knoller is currently serving her sentence at Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla .