sentence
noun
[ ˈsɛnt(ə)ns ]
• a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses.
• the punishment assigned to a defendant found guilty by a court, or fixed by law for a particular offence.
• "her husband is serving a three-year sentence for fraud"
Similar:
judgement,
ruling,
pronouncement,
decision,
determination,
decree,
verdict,
punishment,
prison term,
prison sentence,
jail sentence,
penal sentence,
life sentence,
suspended sentence,
time,
stretch,
stint,
porridge,
rap,
bird,
sentence
verb
• declare the punishment decided for (an offender).
• "ten army officers were sentenced to life imprisonment"
Similar:
pass judgement on,
impose a sentence on,
pronounce sentence on,
mete out punishment to,
punish,
convict,
condemn,
doom,
Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘way of thinking, opinion’, ‘court's declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing’)): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’.
