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sergeants
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Definitions ofsergeants
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- UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
- The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
- A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
- A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.
Example: "sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon"
- A fish, the cobia.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants.
- A bailiff.
- A servant in monastic offices.
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