Policeman

Quick meaning: Policeman is a noun meaning (law enforcement) A police officer, usually a male.

Meaning

(law enforcement) A police officer, usually a male.

More Meanings

1. (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
2. (entomology) Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.
3. (ice hockey) Synonym of enforcer.

Example Sentences

A team may have a policeman or enforcer.

Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.

The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him.

Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

Word Forms

• policemen

Synonyms for policeman

Depending on context, synonyms include enforcer, officer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include officer, bobby, patrolman, policing, gendarme, police.

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