constabulary

Meanings

Adjective

• Of, or relating to constables.
• Characteristic to police; police-like, rather than military.

Noun

• A police force.
• The police in a particular district or area.

Related

Similar words

• constabular

Origin

• From mediaeval Latin conestabularia, a noun use of the feminine version of conestabularius, from Latin constabulus, from comes stabuli, literally ‘master of the stables’.