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  1. sentence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sentence: Merriam-Webster
  3. sentence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sentence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sentence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Sentence, sentence: Wordnik
  7. sentence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sentence: Wiktionary
  9. sentence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sentence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sentence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sentence: Dictionary.com
  13. sentence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sentence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sentence (law), Sentence (linguistics), Sentence (mathematical logic), Sentence (music), Sentence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. sentence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sentence: Rhymezone
  18. sentence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sentence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sentence: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sentence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sentence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. sentence: Vocabulary.com
  24. Sentence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sentence: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sentence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sentence: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sentence: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Sentence (disambiguation), Sentence (law), sentence: Legal dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sentence: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Sentence (disambiguation), sentence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. sentence: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sentence: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sentence: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. sentence, sentence: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sentence, sentence: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sentenced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
noun:  The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
noun:  A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
noun:  (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
noun:  (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
noun:  (logic) A formula with no free variables.
noun:  (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
noun:  (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
noun:  (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
noun:  (archaic) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
verb:  (transitive) To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
verb:  (especially law or poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
verb:  (obsolete) To utter sententiously.

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