sentinel
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sentinel¹
- /ˈsɛn.tɪ.nəl/
Where it comes from
First attested in the 1570s from Middle French sentinelle (“watch or guard kept by a soldier”), from Old Italian sentinella, probably from sentina + -ella, from sentire (“perceive, watch, hear”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See also sense, sentient.
noun sentinels · centinel
- A sentry, watch, or guard. They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at
- A private soldier. “I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.”
- A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data. The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally
- A sentinel crab.
- A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect). Sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases.
verb sentinels · sentineling · sentinelling · sentineled · sentinelled
- To watch over as a guard. He sentineled the north wall.
- To post a guard for. He sentineled the north wall with just one man.
Sentinel²
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona.
- A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
- A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sentry, lookout man, scout, picket, lookout, watch, guard, watchman, custodian, monitoring, keeper, surveillance, control, controlled, locational, indicator
Translations
Every language
noun a sentry or guard
| Español | centinela |
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| 한국어 | 초병 chobyeong, 보초병 bochobyeong, 감시병 gamsibyeong |
| 日本語 | 歩哨 hoshō, 番兵 banpei |
| 中文 | 哨兵 shàobīng, 步哨 bùshào |
| हिन्दी | प्रहरी prahrī |
| Português | sentinela, vigia |
| Français | factionnaire, sentinelle |
| Deutsch | Wache, Wachposten, Wächter, Wächterin |
| Italiano | sentinella |
| Ελληνικά | σκοπός skopós, φρουρός frourós |
| Русский | часово́й časovój, карау́льный karaúlʹnyj, охра́нник oxránnik, страж straž |
| العربية | حَارِس ḥāris, خَفِير ḵafīr, غَفِير ḡafīr |
noun a unique phrase of characters
| Deutsch | Markierung, Schlüsselwort |
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Talk about this word "sentinel." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sentinel. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sentinel. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sentinel "sentinel." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sentinel.Cite this
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title = {sentinel},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sentinel},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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