gendarme

Noun

Meaning

One of a body of heavy cavalry.

An armed policeman in France.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

army bobby sergeant constable marshal beadle bluecoat captain trooper constabulary guardsman patrolman law man force
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Antonyms

bandit peterman prowler criminal offender perpetrator
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Hypernyms

officer policeman police officer

Derivatives

gendarmes gens d'armes

Anagrams

Gerdeman

Examples

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme. Robert McNamara

By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison. E. E. Cummings

A witness said that a gendarme shot Issa Yero Diallo, a 28-year-old woman in Conakry’s Ansoumanyah Plateau neighborhood at close range: “The gendarme threatened the woman before shooting her. Source: Internet

A contrary opinion cannot be equally expected from divisional officers, the police and gendarme, who cannot express any opinion in public without clearance from their superiors. Source: Internet

Other characters, including Guignol's wife Madelon and the gendarme Flageolet soon followed, but these are never much more than foils for the two heroes. Source: Internet

A gendarme was staring straight at him, and when Hampartzoum recognized that he was the gendarme from Parchanj, he knew he was too be tortured. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Gend. Gendall gendang gendarmerie gendarmery gendarussa