英和和英

別の表記

• centry, sentri, sentery (all obsolete)

語源

From earlier sentrie, sentery, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of sentinel or sanctuary; or perhaps from Old French senteret (“a path”), diminutive of sentier, from Medieval Latin semitarius (“a path”).

発音

• enPR: sĕnʹtrē, IPA: /ˈsɛn.tɹi/
• ハイフネーション: sen‧try
• 韻: -ɛntɹi
• Homophone: century (for some speakers)

名詞

sentry (plural sentries)

1. A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
   • 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 213:

     Additional sentries are keeping watch for any signs of an ambush.

2. (uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
3. (nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.
4. A watchtower.
5. An animal like a marmot tasked with alerting the pack to danger.

同意語

• (nautical drag): kite

派生語

関連する語

• sentinel

参考

• sentinel

アナグラム

• Tyners