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Main Entry: ¹sen·tence
Pronunciation: 'sen-t^&n(t)s, -t^&nz
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin sententia feeling, opinion, from *sentent-, *sentens, irregular present participle of sentire to feel -- more at SENSE
1 obsolete : OPINION; especially : a conclusion given on request or reached after deliberation
2 a : JUDGMENT 2a; specifically : one formally pronounced by a court or judge in a criminal proceeding and specifying the punishment to be inflicted upon the convict b : the punishment so imposed <serve out a sentence>
3 archaic : MAXIM, SAW
4 a : a word, clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a syntactic unit which expresses an assertion, a question, a command, a wish, an exclamation, or the performance of an action, that in writing usually begins with a capital letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation, and that in speaking is distinguished by characteristic patterns of stress, pitch, and pauses b : a mathematical or logical statement (as an equation or a proposition) in words or symbols
5 : PERIOD 2b