first sergeant

1. 1.

   a sergeant in the Army above the rank of staff sergeant and below master sergeant

   Synonymssergeant first class

   Broadersergeant

   Narrowerorderly sergeant

Questions about first sergeant

What does first sergeant mean?

first sergeant means "a sergeant in the Army above the rank of staff sergeant and below master sergeant".

What is another word for first sergeant?

Close synonyms include sergeant first class. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is first sergeant a common word?

first sergeant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.