Definition of Sentinel

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Sentinel

One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.

Watch; guard.

A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.

To watch over like a sentinel.

To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.

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Sentinel Quotations

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
Daniel Webster

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Sentinel Translations

sentinel in German is Hinweiszeichen, Markierung, Wache
sentinel in Spanish is centinela
sentinel in Swedish is post (vakt-), vaktpost

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