sentence

Meanings

Noun

• The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
• The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
• A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
• A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
• A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.
• A formula with no free variables.
• Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
• Sense; meaning; significance.
• One's opinion; manner of thinking.
• A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

Verb

• To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
• To decree, announce or pass as a sentence.
• To utter sententiously.

Related

Similar words

• verdict
• conviction

Narrower meaning words

• affirmative sentence, complex sentence, compound sentence, conditional sentence, simple sentence

Broader meaning words

• formula

Origin

• Borrowing from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia ("way of thinking, opinion, sentiment"), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō; see sentient, sentience, sense, scent.