CONSTABULARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does constabulary mean? 

• CONSTABULARY (noun)
  The noun CONSTABULARY has 1 sense:

1. the force of policemen and officers

  Familiarity information: CONSTABULARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTABULARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The force of policemen and officers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

constabulary; law; police; police force

Context example:

the law came looking for him

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

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

law enforcement agency (an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws)

Meronyms (members of "constabulary"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "constabulary"):

European Law Enforcement Organisation; Europol (police organization for the European Union; aims to improve effectiveness and cooperation among European police forces)

gendarmerie; gendarmery (French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively)

Mutawa; Mutawa'een (religious police in Saudi Arabia whose duty is to ensure strict adherence to established codes of conduct; offenders may be detained indefinitely; foreigners are not excluded)

Mounties; RCMP; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the federal police force of Canada)

New Scotland Yard; Scotland Yard (the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London)

secret police (a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition))

Schutzstaffel; SS (special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps)

posse; posse comitatus (a temporary police force)

 Context examples 

On the inspector of constabulary informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts.

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

When I say that I started my pilgrimage at Chicago, graduated in an Irish secret society at Buffalo, gave serious trouble to the constabulary at Skibbareen, and so eventually caught the eye of a subordinate agent of Von Bork, who recommended me as a likely man, you will realise that the matter was complex.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I perceive three of the county constabulary in the drive, and I am glad to see that the little ostler is able to keep pace with them, so it is likely that neither he nor the interesting bridegroom will be permanently damaged by their morning’s adventures.

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