POLICEMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does policeman mean? 

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

1. a member of a police force

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLICEMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a police force

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

officer; police officer; policeman

Context example:

it was an accident, officer

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

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

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

bobby (an informal term for a British policeman)

bull; cop; copper; fuzz; pig (uncomplimentary terms for a policeman)

captain; police captain; police chief (a policeman in charge of a precinct)

constable; police constable (a police officer of the lowest rank)

detective; investigator; police detective; tec (a police officer who investigates crimes)

gendarme (a French policeman)

inspector (a high ranking police officer)

motorcycle cop; motorcycle policeman; speed cop (a policeman who rides a motorcycle (and who checks the speeds of motorists))

police matron; policewoman (a woman policeman)

Mountie (colloquial term for a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police)

shoofly (an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen)

traffic cop (a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic)

trooper (a mounted police officer)

state trooper; trooper (a state police officer)

Holonyms ("policeman" is a member of...):

constabulary; law; police; police force (the force of policemen and officers)

 Context examples 

"Where did you get it?" the policeman demanded.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in the house with me.

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

I have spoken with this policeman to-night and he appears to me to be a perfectly reliable person.

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

The policeman and I agreed that our best plan would be to seize the woman before she could get rid of the papers, presuming that she had them.

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

There was a policeman not far off, advancing with his bull’s eye open; and at the sight, I thought my visitor started and made greater haste.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Fetch a policeman, Annie!” said he.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Did you attack him?" asked the policeman.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The policeman nodded acquiescence, and the man kneeling down placed his bag beside him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The other trees of the forest did nothing to keep them back, so they made up their minds that only the first row of trees could bend down their branches, and that probably these were the policemen of the forest, and given this wonderful power in order to keep strangers out of it.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She became a pest to him, like a policeman following him around the stable and the hounds, and, if he even so much as glanced curiously at a pigeon or chicken, bursting into an outcry of indignation and wrath.

(White Fang, by Jack London)