police constable

1. 1.

   a police officer of the lowest rank

   Synonymsconstable

   Broaderpoliceman

   United Kingdom

Questions about police constable

What does police constable mean?

police constable means "a police officer of the lowest rank".

What is another word for police constable?

Close synonyms include constable. 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 police constable a common word?

police constable 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.