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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkʌnstəbəl/, /ˈkɒnstəbəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑnstəbəl/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkanstəbəl/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈkɔnsʈəbɪl/

名詞

constable (plural constables)

1. One holding the lowest rank in most Commonwealth police forces. (See also chief constable.)
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.

2. (UK, law) A police officer or an officer with equivalent powers.
3. (historical) An officer of a noble court in the Middle Ages, usually a senior army commander. (See also marshal).
4. The warden of a castle.
5. (US) An elected or appointed public officer, usually at municipal level, responsible for maintaining order or serving writs and court orders.
6. (Channel Islands) An elected head of a parish (also known as a connétable)
7. A large butterfly, Dichorragia nesimachus, family Nymphalidae, of Asia.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:police officer

派生語

動詞

constable (third-person singular simple present constables, present participle constabling, simple past and past participle constabled)

1. (intransitive, dated) To act as a constable or policeman.

派生した語

• → Malay: konstabel

アナグラム

• balconets

語源

Borrowed from Old French conestable; compare counte (“count”), stable (“stable”).

発音

• IPA: /kun(ə)ˈstaːblə/, /kun(ə)ˈstaːbəl/
• (reduced) IPA: /ˈkun(ə)stablə/, /ˈkun(ə)stabəl/

名詞

constable (plural constables)

1. constable (high commander or officer of a medieval realm)
2. constable (warden of a castle)

派生した語

• English: constable
• Scots: constable
• → Middle Welsh: cwnstabyl
  • Welsh: cwnstabl

参照

• “cǒnstāble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.