"serjeant-at-arms" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: serjeants-at-arms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|serjeants-at-arms}} serjeant-at-arms (plural serjeants-at-arms)
  1. Archaic spelling of sergeant-at-arms (“person who keeps order at a meeting”). Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: sergeant-at-arms (extra: person who keeps order at a meeting)
    Sense id: en-serjeant-at-arms-en-noun-5F05kesx
  2. (UK, historical) An officer who attends upon the Lord Chancellor with the mace, and who executes various writs of process in the course of a Chancery suit. Tags: UK, historical
    Sense id: en-serjeant-at-arms-en-noun-1dVDG8Jz Categories (other): British English
  3. (UK) A similar officer who attends on each House of Parliament, and arrests any person ordered by the House to be arrested. The post still exists with respect to the UK House of Commons, but is largely ceremonial. Tags: UK
    Sense id: en-serjeant-at-arms-en-noun-43UgQ3UI Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 35 49 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 16 34 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 34 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: sergeant-at-arms

Inflected forms

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