Usually means: Guard that watches and warns.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word sentinel:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sentinel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sentinel: Merriam-Webster
  3. sentinel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sentinel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sentinel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sentinel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sentinel, sentinel: Wordnik
  8. sentinel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sentinel, sentinel: Wiktionary
  10. sentinel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sentinel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sentinel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sentinel: Dictionary.com
  14. sentinel: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Sentinel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sentinel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sentinel: Rhymezone
  19. Sentinel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sentinel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sentinel: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sentinel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sentinel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Sentinel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Sentinel (newspaper), The Sentinel, sentinel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sentinel: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The Sentinel (newspaper), The Sentinel, sentinel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. SENTINEL: Acronym Finder
  3. sentinel, sentinel: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sentinel: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sentinel: Skydiving Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

(Note: See sentineled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sentry, watch, or guard.
noun:  (obsolete) A private soldier.
noun:  (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
noun:  A sentinel crab.
noun:  (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
noun:  (figuratively) Someone who is hardworking and dutiful.
verb:  (transitive) To watch over as a guard.
verb:  (transitive) To post a guard for.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona.
noun:  A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri
noun:  A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.

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