sergeant

noun9

1. •
   a soldier or a police officer of middle level, who gives orders to a small group

   • “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant. — 1928
2. •
   The title of a sergeant, added before their name.
3. •
   A UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
4. •
   (historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.

   • All other sergeants and barristers indiscriminately (except in the Court of Common Pleas, where only sergeants are admitted) may take upon them the protection and defense of any suitors. — 1765
5. •
   (UK) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.

   • sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon
6. •
   A servant in monastic offices.
7. •
   A bailiff.
8. •
   Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinct from the false sergeants.
9. •
   A fish, the píntano (Abudefduf saxatilis), a species of damselfish.