policeman
noun
po·lice·man
pə-ˈlēs-mən 
1
: a member of a police force
2
: one held to resemble a policeman
… making the United States the policeman for the whole wide world.—
R. B. Long
R. B. LongSynonyms of policeman
Examples of policeman in a Sentence
reported the crime to the nearest policeman
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Thirty-five witnesses testified for Penguin, none for the Queen (except a policeman who had taken a copy of the book into custody), and the jury was out for just under three hours before returning a verdict of not guilty.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Five were killed in an airstrike on the villages of Deir Qanoun al Nahr and Abbasiyeh, while a municipal policeman was killed in the village of Ebba, state media reported.
—Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
At the same time, Pratchett was not an anarchist—Vimes is a policeman, which is depicted as a heroic profession—or an identitarian.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
In the pilot, Keith was in his blue policeman’s uniform attending David’s father’s memorial service without permission from David, who was deeply closeted.
—Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Five were killed in an airstrike on the villages of Deir Qanoun al Nahr and Abbasiyeh, while a municipal policeman was killed in the village of Ebba, state media reported.
—Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
At the same time, Pratchett was not an anarchist—Vimes is a policeman, which is depicted as a heroic profession—or an identitarian.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
In the pilot, Keith was in his blue policeman’s uniform attending David’s father’s memorial service without permission from David, who was deeply closeted.
—Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
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“Policeman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/policeman. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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policeman
noun
po·lice·man
pə-ˈlē-smən
Medical Definition
policeman
noun
po·lice·man
pə-ˈlēs-mən
plural policemen
-mən
: an instrument (as a flat piece of rubber on a glass rod) for removing solids from a vessel (as a beaker)
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