Dictionary Definition
sentence
Noun
1 a string of words satisfying the grammatical
rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical
sentences"
2 (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a
criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction
came as no surprise" [syn: conviction, judgment
of conviction, condemnation] [ant:
acquittal]
3 the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;
"he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10
years"; "he is doing time in the county jail" [syn: prison term,
time] v : pronounce a
sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten
years in prison" [syn: condemn, doom]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɛntəns/, /"sEnt@ns/
- Hyphenation: sen·tence
Noun
- 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.
- The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
- The decision of a jury; a verdict.
- The jury returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
- An unfavorable sentence(2): a conviction.
- The prisoner was scheduled for execution as all appeals of his sentence had been denied.
- The punishment
imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
Translations
grammatically complete series of words
consisting of a subject and predicate
- Arabic: (júmla)
- Armenian: նախադասություն (naχadasut῾yun)
- Bulgarian: изречение
- Chinese: 句子 (jùzǐ)
- Czech: věta
- Dutch: zin
- Esperanto: frazo
- Estonian: lause
- Finnish: lause, virke
- French: phrase
- German: Satz
- Hungarian: mondat
- Indonesian: kalimat
- Interlingua: phrase
- Irish: abairt
- Italian: frase
- Japanese: 文 (ぶん, bun)
- Korean: 문장 (munjang)
- Kurdish: hevok
- Malay: ayat
- Polish: zdanie
- Portuguese: frase
- Romanian: propoziţie
- Russian: предложение, фраза
- Slovak: veta
- Slovene: stavek
- Spanish: frase
- Swedish: fras, mening
- Telugu: వాక్యము (vaakyamu)
decision of a jury
- Arabic:
- Bulgarian: присъда
- Chinese: 判刑 (pànxíng)
- Czech: rozsudek
- Dutch: vonnis, uitspraak
- Estonian: kohtuotsus
- Finnish: tuomio
- French: jugement
- German: Urteil
- Hungarian: ítélet
- Interlingua: sententia
- Italian: condanna
- Japanese: 判決 (はんけつ, hanketsu)
- Korean: 판결 (pangyeol)
- Portuguese: sentença
- Romanian: sentinţă
- Russian: приговор (prigovór)
- Slovak: rozsudok
- Spanish: sentencia
- Swedish: dom
conviction
- Bulgarian: осъждане
- Dutch: veroordeling
- Estonian: süüdimõistmine
- Finnish: langettava tuomio
- German: Verurteilung , Schuldspruch
- Hungarian: büntetés
- Interlingua: condemnation
- Portuguese: condenação
- Russian: осуждение
- Spanish: sentencia
- Swedish: dom
punishment imposed on a person convicted of a
crime
- Bulgarian: присъда (prisǎda)
- Dutch: straf
- Finnish: tuomio, rangaistus
- French: peine
- German: Strafe
- Hungarian: ítélet
- Indonesian: keputusan hukum, vonis
- Interlingua: pena
- Japanese: 判決 (はんけつ, hanketsu)
- Polish: wyrok
- Portuguese: pena
- Russian: наказание
- Spanish: sentencia , punición
- Swedish: straff
- Telugu: శిక్ష (Siksha)
Verb
- To declare a sentence on a convicted person.
- The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
Translations
declare a sentence on a convicted person
- Bulgarian: осъждам
- Dutch: straffen, veroordelen tot
- Finnish: tuomita
- French: punir, condamner
- German: verurteilen
- Hungarian: elítél
- Indonesian: memutuskan, memvonis
- Interlingua: sententiar
- Japanese: 判決を下す (はんけつをくだす, hanketsu wo kudasu)
- Polish: skazać
- Portuguese: sentenciar
- Russian: приговаривать (prigovárivat’)
- Spanish: sentenciar
- Swedish: avkunna dom, döma
Extensive Definition
Sentence
commonly refers to a grammatical unit of language.
Sentence may also refer to:
- Sentence case, capitalization in sentences
- Sentence (mathematical logic), a formula with no free variables
- Open sentence, a mathematical equation that contains variables
- Sentence (law), the final act of a judge-ruled process
- Sentence (music), the smallest period in a musical composition
- Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm, an autobiographical graphic novel by the MF Grimm, published by Vertigo in 2007
- "Sentencing" (The Wire episode), thirteenth episode of The Wire
sentence in Danish: Sætning
sentence in German: Satz
sentence in Esperanto: Frazo
sentence in Sundanese: Pindah
sentence in Swedish: Sats
sentence in Ukrainian: Речення
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Parthian shot, acquittal, act on, action, adage, address, adjectival phrase,
adjudge, adjudicate, affirmation, allegation, ana, analects, anathematize, anathematizing, answer, aphorism, apostrophe, apothegm, article, assertion, attaint, averment, award, axiom, back matter, blacklist, blame, book, bring home to, byword, catchword, censure, chapter, clause, collected sayings,
comment, condemn, condemnation, consideration, construction, convict, conviction, crack, current saying, damn, damnation, death sentence,
death warrant, decision, declaration, decree, deliverance, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, determination, devote, diagnosis, dictate, dictum, distich, doom, epigram, exclamation, excommunicate, excommunication,
expression, fascicle, find, find against, find for, find
guilty, finding,
folio, front matter,
gathering, gnome, golden saying, greeting, guilty verdict,
headed group, idiom,
idiotism, interjection, judge, judgement, judgment, landmark decision,
locution, manner of
speaking, maxim, mention, moral, mot, motto, note, noun phrase, number, observation, oracle, ordain, order, page, paragraph, pass judgment, pass
sentence, pass sentence on, passage, peculiar expression,
penalize, penalty, period, phrasal idiom, phrase, pithy saying, position, precedent, precept, prescript, prognosis, pronounce, pronounce judgment,
pronounce on, pronounce sentence, pronouncement, proscribe, proscription, proverb, proverbial saying,
proverbs, punish, punishment, question, rap, reflection, remark, report, resolution, return a verdict,
rule, ruling, saw, say, saying, section, sententious expression,
set phrase, sheet,
signature, sloka, standard phrase, statement, stock saying,
subjoinder, sutra, syntactic structure,
teaching, term, text, thought, turn of expression,
turn of phrase, usage,
utter a judgment, utterance, verb complex, verb
phrase, verbalism,
verdict, verdict of
guilty, verse, way of
speaking, wisdom, wisdom
literature, wise saying, witticism, word, word-group, words of
wisdom