Thesaurus: sentence

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1. n. Sense; meaning; significance.
2. n. An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
3. n. A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
4. n. In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
5. n. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
6. n. A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
7. v. t. To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
8. v. t. To decree or announce as a sentence.
9. v. t. To utter sententiously.
10. n. a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
11. n. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
12. n. the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned