CONSTABLE

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• CONSTABLE (noun)
  The noun CONSTABLE has 3 senses:

1. a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff

2. English landscape painter (1776-1837)

3. a police officer of the lowest rank

  Familiarity information: CONSTABLE used as a noun is uncommon.

• CONSTABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("constable" is a kind of...):

law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English landscape painter (1776-1837)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Constable; John Constable

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A police officer of the lowest rank

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

constable; police constable

Hypernyms ("constable" is a kind of...):

officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Two of his constables came at the call.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Several constables and special police officers, anticipating trouble, trailed along to prevent it, and herded the two gangs separately aboard the train for San Francisco.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As we left the house Lestrade remained in the front room, while the repentant constable opened the door to let us out.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Strike down to earth that false judge there, and his constable, and spare not the king who has treated me so ill.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“There’s a constable in possession,” said Baynes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But then, again, the Socman of Minstead was no friend to the Constable of Twynham Castle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

None dared arrest him until there should be due inquiry, but when the coroner’s court brought wilful murder against him, the constables came for him in full cry.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the inspector and a constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge him with theft.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I walked through the streets; and, once more seeing my old adversary the butcher—now a constable, with his staff hanging up in the shop—went down to look at the place where I had fought him; and there meditated on Miss Shepherd and the eldest Miss Larkins, and all the idle loves and likings, and dislikings, of that time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her haste attracted the attention of the police constable.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)