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sentence   (TTS Sound)

The noun sentence has 3 senses

• sentence -- (a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences")


• conviction, judgment of conviction, condemnation, sentence -- ((criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise")


• prison term, sentence, time -- (the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail")

The verb sentence has 1 sense

• sentence, condemn, doom -- (pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison")