What does serjeant-at-law mean?

serjeant-at-law means "an English barrister of the highest rank".

How many syllables are in serjeant-at-law?

serjeant-at-law has 5 syllables and divides as ser-je-an-t-at--law under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for serjeant-at-law?

Close synonyms include serjeant, sergeant-at-law, sergeant. 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 serjeant-at-law a common word?

serjeant-at-law 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.

Serjeant-at-law — meaning and 3 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
an English barrister of the highest rank
Synonymsserjeant sergeant-at-law sergeant
Broaderbarrister

Questions about serjeant-at-law

What does serjeant-at-law mean?: serjeant-at-law means "an English barrister of the highest rank".
How many syllables are in serjeant-at-law?: serjeant-at-law has 5 syllables and divides as ser-je-an-t-at--law under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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