Usually means: Guards stationed to keep watch.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sentinels: Merriam-Webster
  2. sentinels: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sentinels: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sentinels: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sentinel's, Sentinels, sentinel's, sentinels: Wordnik
  6. sentinels: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sentinels: Wiktionary
  8. sentinels: Dictionary.com
  9. Sentinels (Hudson), Sentinels (comics), Sentinels, The Sentinels: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. sentinels: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sentinels: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sentinels: Medical dictionary

(Note: See sentinel as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sentinel)

noun:  A sentry, watch, or guard.
noun:  (obsolete) A private soldier.
noun:  (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
noun:  A sentinel crab.
noun:  (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
noun:  (figuratively) Someone who is hardworking and dutiful.
verb:  (transitive) To watch over as a guard.
verb:  (transitive) To post a guard for.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona.
noun:  A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri
noun:  A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.
▸ Also see sentinel


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