sentence: meaning and words from its letters
8 letters · 10 letter points · starts with S · ends with E
Meaning of sentence
noun
The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
Example: The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using, e.g., the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
Example: The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
A formula with no free variables.
Listed forms: sentences.
Source: Wiktionary — sentence.
verb
- transitive
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
Example: The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
- especially, poetic
To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
- obsolete
To utter sententiously.
Listed forms: sentences, sentencing, sentenced.
Source: Wiktionary — sentence.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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noun
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
- conviction
- judgment of conviction
- condemnation
noun
the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- prison term
- time
verb
pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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Letter-value score of sentence
S(1) + E(1) + N(1) + T(1) + E(1) + N(1) + C(3) + E(1) = 10 points.
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Anagrams of sentence
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