sergeants

noun

1. 1

   UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.

2. 2

   The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.

3. 3

   A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.

4. 4

   A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.

   “sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon”

5. 5

   A fish, the cobia.

6. 6

   Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants.

7. 7

   A bailiff.

8. 8

   A servant in monastic offices.