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Sargent vs. Sergeant: Decoding the Right Spelling

Sargent vs. Sergeant

Which is correct: Sargent or Sergeant

How to spell Sergeant?

Sargent is Incorrect

Sergeant is Correct

Sergeant Definitions

A noncommissioned rank in the US Army or Marine Corps that is above corporal and below staff sergeant.
Any of several ranks of noncommissioned officers in the US Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
Master gunnery sergeant.
Staff sergeant.
One who holds any of these ranks or a similar rank in another military organization.
The rank of police officer next below a captain, lieutenant, or inspector.
A police officer holding this rank.
A sergeant at arms.
(military) 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.
Sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon
A fish, the cobia.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants.
A bailiff.
A servant in monastic offices.
Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
The sergeant of the town of Rome them sought.
The magistrates sent the serjeant, saying, Let those men go.
This fell sergeant, Death,Is strict in his arrest.
In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; - called also serjeant at law.
A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
The cobia.
Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the army or air force or marines ranking above a corporal
A lawman with the rank of sergeant
An English barrister of the highest rank

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