SENTINEL meaning: Guard that watches and warns

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word sentinel:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

sentinel: Merriam-Webster.com
sentinel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sentinel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Sentinel, sentinel: Wordnik
sentinel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Sentinel, sentinel: Wiktionary
sentinel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
sentinel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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sentinel: Online Etymology Dictionary
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Sentinel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
sentinel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
sentinel: Rhymezone
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sentinel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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sentinel: Mnemonic Dictionary
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sentinel: Dictionary/thesaurus
Sentinel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

The Sentinel (newspaper), The Sentinel, sentinel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

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The Sentinel (newspaper), The Sentinel, sentinel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

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sentinel, sentinel: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

sentinel: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Sentinel: Skydiving Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Opposite:

sentry, lookout, vigilant

Phrases:

Sentinel node, sentinel event, Sentinel value, sentinel surveillance, stand sentinel, more...

Adjectives:

faithful, single, solitary, silent, watchful, lonely, lone, vigilant, french, old, armed

Colors:

charcoal, slate gray, midnight blue, steel blue, gunmetal, olive drab, forest green, burgundy, maroon, navy blue

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