Sentinel
['sentɪn(ə)l] or ['sɛntɪnl]
Definition
(n.) One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
(n.) Watch; guard.
(n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
(v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
Typed by Allan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Watchman, guard, sentry, guardsman.
Edited by Dorothy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Watch, guardian, guard, keeper, warden, sentry, watchman, patrol, vedette,{[i]?}
ANT:Traitor, decoy
Inputed by Eunice
Definition
n. a soldier or soldier-marine at a point with the duty of watching for the approach of an enemy or guarding the gun-park camp magazine or other locality: a sentry.—adj. acting as a sentinel.—v.t. to watch over as a sentinel.—adj. Sen′tinelled furnished with a sentinel.—Sentinel crab a crab of the Indian Ocean with long eye-stalks.
Checker: Sophia
Examples
- I was rewarded for posting myself sentinel at the lake by the appearance--not of Anne Catherick herself, but of the person in charge of her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not think that any burglar could have done. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The swinging sentinel was posted, and the sea rushed on. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Tabor stands solitary and alone, a giant sentinel above the Plain of Esdraelon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is a shabby little figure of a private soldier; they had posted him as sentinel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I was seen by the sentinel, who would, I knew, direct the colonel's attention to my presence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Gerald, like a sentinel, was watching the people who were going on to the boat. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Beneath this tree four or five yeomen lay stretched on the ground, while another, as sentinel, walked to and fro in the moonlight shade. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Jo was dismissed, but chose to march up and down the hall like a sentinel, having some fear that the prisoner might bolt. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The sentinel on their post called out in like manner, Turn out the guard for the commanding general, and, I believe, added, General Grant. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I put two sentinels of my own company, on whom I could rely, to keep the door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And so two of Rawdon's out-sentinels were in the hands of the enemy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Another crow joined them and Robert Jordan, watching them, thought: those are my sentinels. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Nabonidus was taken prisoner, and Persian sentinels were set at the gates of the temple of Bel, where the services continued without intermission. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I suppose that fellow that rode by on the mule posted all the sentinels, from Athens to the Piraeus, about us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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