sentence
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sentence/ˈsentəns/
▶noun
- 1 a set of words that is complete in itself, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command and typically containing a subject and predicate.
■ Logic a series of signs or symbols expressing a proposition in an artificial or logical language.
- 2 the punishment assigned to a defendant found guilty by a court.
– origin ME (also in the sense ‘way of thinking, opinion’): via OFr. from L. sententia ‘opinion’.
'sentence' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablative absolute
- absolute
- adjourn
- adjunct
- adverb
- amphibology
- antiphon
- apodosis
- arrest
- arrestable offence
- asyndeton
- attainder
- because
- bird
- case
- catchphrase
- clause
- comma
- community order
- community sentence
- commutation
- commute
- complex sentence
- compound sentence
- condemn
- constative
- construct
- construe
- convict
- convoluted
- coordinate
- dangling participle
- declarative
- deep structure
- defer
- determination
- disjunct
- enjambement
- execute
- expletive
- extrajudicial
- focus
- full stop
- function word
- hypallage
- include
- interdict
- it
- kudos
- life
