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What is a sergeant?

What is a sergeant? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
  2. The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
  3. (law, historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
  4. (Britain, historical) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.
  5. A fish, the cobia.
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In the same year, the police sergeant was fatally stabbed by raiders outside a post office in New Addington, Surrey.
In all, sergeant pilots shot down almost 250 enemy aircraft, and 17 became fighter aces.
Lessons have different levels of difficulty to reflect the roles of either a sergeant or a warrant officer.
A former regimental sergeant major has issued a war cry to pensioners to back our campaign to save three under-fire post offices.
The sergeant managed to whisper something in Leila's ear that was faint to both Daniel's and Lance's own hearing.
It was almost like a mirage approaching the urupa and seeing the group's sergeant on the horizon wearing a korowai.

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