On a rock which overlooked the track, showing out dark and plain against the sky, there stood a solitary sentinel.
Source: tatoeba (6359759)
Sentinel
//ˈsɛn.tɪ.nəl//
Synonyms for "sentinel" (25 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
86 translations across 37 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- حَارِس noun (a sentry or guard)
- خَفِير noun (a sentry or guard)
- غفير noun (a sentry or guard)
- غَفِير noun (a sentry or guard)
Belarusian
1 entries- вартавы́ noun (a sentry or guard)
Bulgarian
4 entries- страж noun (a sentry or guard)
- часови́ noun (a sentry or guard)
- часово́й noun (a sentry or guard)
- охранявам verb (To watch over something as a guard)
Catalan
1 entries- sentinella noun (a sentry or guard)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 哨兵 noun (a sentry or guard)
- 步哨 noun (a sentry or guard)
Czech
2 entries- hlídka noun (a sentry or guard)
- stráž noun (a sentry or guard)
Danish
3 entries- skildvagt noun (a sentry or guard)
- vagtpost noun (a sentry or guard)
- stå vagt verb (To watch over something as a guard)
Dutch
1 entries- wacht noun (a sentry or guard)
Finnish
4 entries- vahti noun (a sentry or guard)
- vahti noun (a unique phrase of characters)
- vartija noun (a sentry or guard)
- vahtia verb (To watch over something as a guard)
French
3 entries- factionnaire noun (a sentry or guard)
- sentinelle noun (a sentry or guard)
- regarder verb (To watch over something as a guard)
Galician
1 entries- sentinela noun (a sentry or guard)
German
4 entries- Markierung noun (a unique phrase of characters)
- Schlüsselwort noun (a unique phrase of characters)
- Wache noun (a sentry or guard)
- Wachposten noun (a sentry or guard)
Greek
2 entries- σκοπός noun (a sentry or guard)
- φρουρός noun (a sentry or guard)
Hindi
1 entries- प्रहरी noun (a sentry or guard)
Hungarian
1 entries- őrszem noun (a sentry or guard)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- نِگَهْبان noun (a sentry or guard)
- پاسْدار noun (a sentry or guard)
Irish
2 entries- fairtheoir noun (a sentry or guard)
- fairtheoir noun (a unique phrase of characters)
Italian
1 entries- sentinella noun (a sentry or guard)
Japanese
2 entries- 歩哨 noun (a sentry or guard)
- 番兵 noun (a sentry or guard)
Korean
3 entries- 감시병 noun (a sentry or guard)
- 보초병 noun (a sentry or guard)
- 초병 noun (a sentry or guard)
Latin
4 entries- custos noun (a sentry or guard)
- excubitor noun (a sentry or guard)
- praeses noun (a sentry or guard)
- vigil noun (a sentry or guard)
Macedonian
1 entries- стражар noun (a sentry or guard)
Navajo
1 entries- haʼasídí noun (a sentry or guard)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- nobetdar noun (a sentry or guard)
- zêrevan noun (a sentry or guard)
- çavdêr noun (a sentry or guard)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- نوبت noun (a sentry or guard)
Polish
2 entries- strażnik noun (a sentry or guard)
- wartownik noun (a sentry or guard)
Portuguese
3 entries- sentinela noun (a sentry or guard)
- vigia noun (a sentry or guard)
- vigiar verb (To watch over something as a guard)
Russian
4 entries- карау́льный noun (a sentry or guard)
- охра́нник noun (a sentry or guard)
- страж noun (a sentry or guard)
- часово́й noun (a sentry or guard)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- freiceadan noun (a sentry or guard)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- stràžār noun (a sentry or guard)
- стра̀жа̄р noun (a sentry or guard)
Slovak
2 entries- hliadka noun (a sentry or guard)
- stráž noun (a sentry or guard)
Slovene
1 entries- stražar noun (a sentry or guard)
Spanish
2 entries- centinela noun (a sentry or guard)
- guarda noun (a sentry or guard)
Swedish
2 entries- skyltvakt noun (a sentry or guard)
- vaktpost noun (a sentry or guard)
Turkish
4 entries- gözcü noun (a sentry or guard)
- koruyucu noun (a sentry or guard)
- nöbetçi noun (a sentry or guard)
- sembol noun (a unique phrase of characters)
Ukrainian
2 entries- вартови́й noun (a sentry or guard)
- охороняти verb (To watch over something as a guard)
Welsh
2 entries- gwarchodwr noun (a sentry or guard)
- gwyliwr noun (a sentry or guard)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Did the sentinel see anything that night?
Source: tatoeba (9969664)
These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a salad and cucumber.
Source: tatoeba (10074187)
It is illegal to try to go to North Sentinel Island.
Source: tatoeba (11780367)
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