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What is the noun for sergeants?

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sergeant
  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.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “He quarterbacks his team like a drill sergeant, constantly shouting out instructions.”
      “In all, sergeant pilots shot down almost 250 enemy aircraft, and 17 became fighter aces.”
      “His rank and station have not been released by police, but it is understood he is of, or above, senior sergeant rank.”
sergeancy
  1. The rank or office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
  2. Examples:
    1. “By virtue of his sergeancy, his name crops up with greater frequency in the journals of Lewis and Clark than that of most others.”
      “Having proven his valor, he is restored to his sergeancy and is given the honor of pinning his son with his flying wings at the graduation ceremony.”
      “In 1219, Gilbert le Gluton held land and an oven in Nottingham by sergeancy as a royal bailiff errant.”
sergeantship
  1. The qualities, role, or position of a sergeant.
sergeantcy
  1. Alternative form of sergeancy
sergeaunt
  1. Obsolete form of sergeant.
sergeantships
  1. plural of sergeantship
sergeantcies
  1. plural of sergeantcy
sergeaunts
  1. plural of sergeaunt
sergeancies
  1. plural of sergeancy
sergeants
  1. plural of sergeant
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “One of the sergeants, Maximus, claimed that he saw their spirits ascending to heaven during their executions, and he was then beaten to death.”
      “Army Reserve company commanders and first sergeants are where the training rubber meets the proverbial road.”
      “There are paintings and photographs of generals, lieutenants, sergeants, privates, secretaries and commanders-in-chief.”
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