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sentry

Syllables: sen·try/ˈsɛn.tɹi/

sentry noun: a guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.

Noun

sentry (plural sentries)

  1. A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
    • Additional sentries are keeping watch for any signs of an ambush.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 213
  2. (uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
  3. A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.
    Synonyms:
    kite
  4. A watchtower.
  5. An animal like a marmot tasked with alerting the pack to danger.

sentry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

sentry in Hindi

guard
प्रहरी prahrī

sentry in Tamil

காவலர்

sentry in Urdu

چوکیدار پاسبان

sentry in Bengali

প্রহরী, পাহারাদার
More languagesFewer languages
sentry in Malayalam
കാവൽക്കാരൻ, വാതിൽക്കാവൽക്കാരൻ, പാറാവുകാരൻ, അന്തര്യാമികൻ
sentry in Kannada
ಕಾವಲುಗಾರ
sentry in Gujarati
સંત્રી, સંતરી

Examples of sentry in a sentence

  • I could have sworn I'd never seen anyone smile as broadly and as often as the sentry.
  • Three castellated (with battlements) towers stand sentry here, with one being particularly large.
  • From the nearest French sentry, they learned that Grindley was lying drunk in their picket-house.

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Synonyms of sentry

Forms of sentry

pluralsentries
alternative form (obsolete)centry
alternative form (obsolete)sentri
alternative form (obsolete)sentery

Plural of sentry: sentries

Origin of sentry

From earlier sentrie, sentery, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of sentinel or sanctuary; or perhaps from Old French senteret (“a path”), diminutive of sentier, from Medieval Latin semitarius (“a path”).

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Questions about sentry

What does sentry mean?
Sentry means a guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
What is sentry in Hindi?
Sentry in Hindi is प्रहरी (prahrī). See Sentry meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sentry?
Sentry is a noun.
How do you pronounce sentry?
Sentry is pronounced /ˈsɛn.tɹi/.
What is the plural of sentry?
The plural of sentry is sentries.

Words near sentry in the dictionary

  1. senton bombs
  2. sentons
  3. Sentosa
  4. sentried
  5. sentries
  6. sentry
  7. sentry post
  8. sentry posts
  9. sentry-box
  10. sentry-boxes
  11. sentry-go

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sentry (page history and authors); sentry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sentry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sentry (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sentry (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sentry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sentry (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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