sentence

Meaning

Noun

1. 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. A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

Verb

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

Concepts

sentence

condemn

phrase

doom

judgement

clause

verdict

convict

judge

word

judgment

penalty

punishment

decree

condemnation

conviction

punish

decision

speech

penalize

saying

statement

find guilty

issue judgement against

discipline

pronouncement

decide

adjudicate

verse

utterance

words

judgment of conviction

few words

remark

denounce

ruling

line

order

tell

deliver judgement

adjudge

prison term

time

determination

reprobate

retribution

adage

dictum

expression

maxim

call

pronounce

proscribe

beat

cane

castigate

chastise

flog

lash

scourge

smack

thrash

whip

comment

conjecture

consideration

idea

intention

opinion

scheme

paragraph

passage

section

announce

judicial decision

article

command

charge

court verdict

give verdict

written judgment

edict

fine

hymn

what is spoken

judicial decree

composition

compound-word

few remarks

single sentence

pass judgement

resolution

damnation

damn

motion

offer

overture

premise

proposal

proposition

second

suggestion

S

closed formula

aphorism

axiom

epigram

epigraph

formula

gnome

motto

precept

chastening

infliction

nemesis

penalisation

requital

adjudication

finding of fact

general verdict

proscription

anathematise

anathematize

comminate

deplore

deprecate

disapprove

execrate

give

pass judgment

referee

declare

penalise

criticize

award

censure

indictment

phrases

torment

torture

give up

Hyphenated as

sen‧tence

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛntəns/

Etymology

Borrowing 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”).

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