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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that keeps guard; a sentry.
  2. v. To watch over as a guard.
  3. v. To provide with a guard.
  4. v. To post as a guard.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Watch or guard kept by a soldier stationed for the purpose at a particular place.
  2. n. A soldier stationed as a guard, either to challenge persons drawing near and to allow to pass only those who give a watchword, and, in the absence of this, to resist them and give an alarm, or for display or ceremony only.
  3. n. A sentinel-crab.
  4. Acting as a sentinel; watching.
  5. To watch over as a sentinel.
  6. To furnish with a sentinel or sentinels; place under the guard of sentinels.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A sentry or guard.
  2. n. computer science a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
  3. v. transitive To watch over as a guard.
  4. v. transitive To post as guard.
  5. v. transitive To post a guard for.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
  2. n. obsolete Watch; guard.
  3. n. (Zoöl.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
  4. v. rare, rare To watch over like a sentinel.
  5. v. To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

Etymologies

  1. 1570s, from Middle French sentinelle, from Italian sentinella (perhaps via a notion of "perceive, watch"), from sentīre ("to hear"), from Latin sentiō ("feel, perceive by the senses"). See sense. (Wiktionary)
  2. French sentinelle, from Italian sentinella, probably from Old Italian sentina, vigilance, from sentire, to watch, from Latin sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • fuffbee Sworn to defend
    Condemned to hell
    Tempt not the blade
    All fear the Sentinel
    - Judas Priest May 15, 2007

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