sentence

1. 1.

   pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law

   “He was condemned to ten years in prison”

   Synonymscondemndoom

   Broaderdeclare

   Narrowerforedoomreprobate

   law

Other forms of sentence

plural

sentences·

past tense

sentenced·

present participle

sentencing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sentence

What does sentence mean?

sentence means "a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sentence?

sentence has 2 syllables: sen-tence. The stress falls on "sen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛntəns/.

What is another word for sentence?

Close synonyms include conviction, judgment of conviction, condemnation, prison term, time. 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 sentence a common word?

sentence is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.