Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "police" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

donut shop police station town wrong place

Capable Of

arm themselves arm weapons arrest attempt to catch burgler board vessels book criminal bring misery carry gun carry gun while at work case building catch thief corner criminal corner suspect direct traffic fine people who break law fine people who speed force entry force into confession force law free prisoner give grief to public guard banks guard prisoners help people help victims hold suspect hurry drivers notice problems question suspect now require people to obey law rope off crime scene spot criminals stop cars stop most criminals stop speeding cars storm building storm house tail criminal tail suspect

Causes Desire

move car

Dbpedia Genre

new wave music post punk

Derived Terms

FTP I'll call the police Interpol Sharia police Syariah police antipolice armed police call the police chief of police community police officer counterpolice counterpolice cyberpolice depolice fanpol fashion police field police fire police fuck the police fun police grammar police haram police hyperpolice identity police judicial police language police military police moral police morality police mounted police nonpolice overpolice parapolice pawlice piglice polac police action police ambulance police and thief police barrier police beat police blotter police box police boy police brutality police burgh police captain police car police chief police clearance certificate police commissioner police constable police court police department police detective police dog police escort police force police jury police lieutenant police line police lives matter police magistrate police man police office police officer police one's brass police positive police power police procedural police protection police record police report police scanner police science police search advisor police sergeant police service police sketch police special police squad police state police station police tape police up police van police village police violence police wagon police work policeable policeboat policedom policeism policeless policelike policeman policeperson policespeak policewear policewoman policework policial policiary prepolice pretty police religious police riot police riot police officer secret police security police self-police service police special police state police thought police time police tone police tone policing tourist police traffic police underpolice water police

Desires

know when crimes committed

Etymologically Related To

polity

Has Part

file paperwork to record crimes

Context

caribbean historical regional us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

force guard law enforcement agency personnel

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

CID CSI Gardai LAPD Met NYPD RCMP SOCO SWAT Scotland Yard Special Branch Sûreté flying squad

Type Of (IsA)

band force human hunting thieves job law enforcement agency people

Parts (Meronyms)

charpering carsey cop shop nick police officer police station police vehicle precinct

Part Of

government

Receives Action

supposed to fight crime

Related Terms

authority beat long arm of the law manor patch policy polis politic political politically politician politicisation politicise politicization politicize politics polity power

Related Terms

administration authority civil civilization communal community force law enforcement legal maintain order police officer policy public society

Synonym Network

cobbler copper filth fuzz heat law patrol peeler pig woodentop

Used For

scare people

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.