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What does sentence mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sentence? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
  2. (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking. [14th-17th c.]
  3. (now rare) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. [from 14th c.]
  4. (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. [from 14th c.]
  5. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. [from 14th c.]
  6. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  7. (obsolete) A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. [14th-19th c.]
  8. (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop. [from 15th c.]
  9. (logic) A formula with no free variables. [from 20th c.]
  10. (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. [from 20th c.]
Verb
  1. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
  2. (obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
  3. (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
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