Clues for the word "SERGEANT"
We've had 62 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 90 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on November 11, 2025.
Definition of sergeant
- n. - Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
- n. - In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
- n. - A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
- n. - A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
- n. - The cobia.
Referring Clues
- Drill instructor, usually
- Base figure
- Pepper's rank
- Pepper or York
- A noncom rank
- The Beatles' Pepper
- Air Force rank
- The Beatles' Pepper, for one
- Corporal's superior
- Three-striper
- York or Snorkel
- Erstwhile private
- Top kick
- Squad leader
- Friday or York, for example
- Bilko, for one
- Private's boss
- Danno's rank
- Bilko's rank
- Military rank
- To whom a private says "Sir, yes, sir!"
- Army rank
- Non-commissioned officer
- Rank above corporal
- NCO
- Soldier drove without changing gear
- NCO set about constructing range
- Serviceman agrees about not losing heart
- Soldier crawling under material, seeing another soldier
- Soldier and lover in Hardy novel
- In an outburst of anger, lay about the soldier
- Noncommissioned officer
- Man of rank struggled with endless greatness
- Military or police officer
- He gets near battle
- Estrange (anag)
- Way to take in a worried green police officer?
- NCO or police officer ...
- Policeman wearing material and short trousers, initially
- Russian insect with stripes?
- Reagents (anag)
- Artist heard in Troy, for example
- Rank insect after fabric
- Cloth worker, 7's boss
- Russian worker becomes policeman
- Textile worker becomes a police officer
- Rank of Frenchman, social worker?
- Police officer, Frenchman, visiting social worker
- Social worker after fabric, one with stripes
- Worker after strong cloth, one with stripes
- Social worker after cloth, one with stripes
- Police officer gets near criminal
- Police officer having material on worker?
- Bilko, for example
- Police officer gets near disturbance
- Barracks boss
- Drill instructor
- Bilko or Pepper
- Snorkel, in "Beetle Bailey"
- The soldier, filled with a terrible anger, is ready
- Marine rank
- Forrest Gump, for one
Last Seen In
- New York Times - November 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 20, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 08, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 18, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 06, 2024
- Daily American - July 27, 2024
- Daily American - July 11, 2024
- Daily American - June 05, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 09, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 24, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 25, 2023
- LA Times - November 02, 2023
- Family Time - January 22, 2023
- Daily Quick - January 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 23, 2022
- Daily Quick - October 20, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - October 02, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - September 26, 2022
- Daily Quick - August 06, 2022
- Your Life Choices - August 04, 2022
- Daily American - July 27, 2022
- Daily American - July 11, 2022
- Mirror Quick - February 05, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - January 12, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - December 04, 2017
- Mirror Quick - October 28, 2017
- And in 60 more crossword puzzles...