| sentence | |
| 1. n. (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. | |
| The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second. | |
| 2. n. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. | |
| The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler. | |
| 3. n. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. | |
| 5. n. (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop | |
| The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard. | |
| 6. n. (logic) A formula with no free variables. | |
| 7. n. (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking. | |
| 10. n. (now rare) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. | |
| 11. v. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment. | |
| The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence. | |
| 13. v. (obsolete) To utter sententiously. | |
