sentinels

Meaning of sentinels

plural noun
  1. a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch.
    soldiers stood sentinel with their muskets
  2. an indicator of the presence of disease.
    a sentinel surveillance programme for influenza
verb, 3rd person present
  1. station a soldier or guard by (a place) to keep watch.
    a wide course had been roped off and sentinelled with police

late 16th century: from French sentinelle, from Italian sentinella, of unknown origin.

Information about sentinels

  • The singular form of sentinels is: sentinel.
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Hyphenation of sentinels

sen-tinels

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • sentinels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with sentinels

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