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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
Ian Anderson

Meaning of "policeman" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POLICEMAN

policeman  [pəˈliːsmən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLICEMAN

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Policeman is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POLICEMAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

policeman

Police officer

A police officer is a warranted employee of a police force. In the United States, "officer" is the formal name of the lowest police rank. In many other countries, "officer" is a generic term not specifying a particular rank, and the lowest rank is often "constable". In many other countries there is no such title as "police officer", as the use of the rank "officer" is legally reserved for military personnel only and thus not applicable. Police officers are generally charged with the apprehension of criminals and the prevention and detection of crime, protection of the general public, and the maintenance of public order. Police officers may be sworn to an oath, and have the power to arrest people and detain them for a limited time, along with other duties and powers. Some police officers may also be trained in special duties, such as counter-terrorism, surveillance, child protection, VIP protection, civil law enforcement, and investigation techniques into major crime, including fraud, rape, murder and drug trafficking.

Definition of policeman in the English dictionary

The definition of policeman in the dictionary is a member of a police force, esp one holding the rank of constable Gender-neutral form: police officer.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLICEMAN


baseman
ˈbeɪsmən
classman
ˈklɑːsmən
Congressman
ˈkɒŋɡrɛsmən
craftsman
ˈkrɑːftsmən
glassman
ˈɡlɑːsmən
horseman
ˈhɔːsmən
houseman
ˈhaʊsmən
huntsman
ˈhʌntsmən
light-horseman
laɪtˈhɔːsmən
lowerclassman
ˌləʊəˈklɑːsmən
marksman
ˈmɑːksmən
Norseman
ˈnɔːsmən
passman
ˈpɑːsmən
Scotsman
ˈskɒtsmən
spokesman
ˈspəʊksmən
sportsman
ˈspɔːtsmən
statesman
ˈsteɪtsmən
underclassman
ˌʌndəˈklɑːsmən
upperclassman
ˌʌpəˈklɑːsmən
verseman
ˈvɜːsmən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLICEMAN

police intervention
police marksman
Police Motu
police office
police officer
police presence
police procedural
police protection
police record
police service
police state
police station
police wagon
police work
policeman bird
policeman´s helmet
policemen
policer
policewoman
policewomen

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLICEMAN

ambulanceman
Coleman
community policeman
defenceman
ex-serviceman
faceman
fireman
foreman
freeman
gentleman
iceman
military policeman
mounted policeman
national serviceman
placeman
serviceman
sleeping policeman
spaceman
surfaceman
traffic policeman

Synonyms and antonyms of policeman in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «policeman» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLICEMAN

Find out the translation of policeman to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of policeman from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «policeman» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

警察
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

policía
570 millions of speakers

English

policeman
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पुलिसकर्मी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شُرْطِيّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полицейский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

policial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুলিশ কাজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

policier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerja polis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Polizist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

警官
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

경찰관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kantor polisi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nam cảnh sát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போலீஸ் வேலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोलिस काम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Polis çalışması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poliziotto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

policjant
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поліцейський
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

polițist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αστυνομικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

polisieman
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

politimann
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of policeman

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLICEMAN»

The term «policeman» is quite widely used and occupies the 24.446 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLICEMAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «policeman» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «policeman» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about policeman

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10 QUOTES WITH «POLICEMAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word policeman.
1
Jonathan Ames
I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.
2
Martin Amis
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
3
Ian Anderson
When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
4
Richard Armitage
I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.
5
Brendan Behan
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
6
Louis D. Brandeis
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
7
Charlie Chaplin
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
8
Alex Cox
You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
9
Richard J. Daley
The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
10
Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLICEMAN»

Discover the use of policeman in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to policeman and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Last Policeman
When the Earth is doomed by an imminent asteroid collision, homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares about.
Ben Winters, 2013
2
The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of ‘At Swim-Two-Birds’ – Flann O’Brien.
Flann O’Brien, 2010
3
My Policeman
It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom.
Bethan Roberts, 2012
4
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
"Dick skillfully explores the psychological ramifications of this nightmare."—The New York Times Review of Books Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said grapples with many of the themes Philip K. Dick is best known for— identity, altered ...
Philip K. Dick, 2012
5
The Laughing Policeman: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (4)
The incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass-murderer.
Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo, 2010
6
The New Policeman
'A beautifully original book' INDEPENDENT 'A story full of surprises, magic and a delicately balanced internal logic' JULIA ECCLESHARE, GUARDIAN 'There is something hallucinatory, if not delirious about this stylish, magical book' JAN MARK
Kate Thompson, 2011
7
Death of a Policeman Birth of a Baby: A Crime and Its Aftermath
A secret adoption was arranged, and neither Beatrice nor Clyde was told by whom Jean had been adopted. This book tells the story of Beatrice's crime and its aftermath, including the impact on Jean's life.
T. Felder Dorn, 2012
8
The Popular Policeman and Other Cases: Psychological ...
" "There is no other English-language textbook covering a similarly wide range of offences, and this volume will fill a gap in the existing literature and demonstrate how psychological expertise can be used in a much larger area than is ...
Willem Albert Wagenaar, Henricus Florentine Maria Crombag, H. F. M. Crombag, 2005
9
Woes of the True Policeman
The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower—through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his teenage daughter, Rosa, his passion for a former student, and his retreat from ...
Roberto Bolaño, 2012
10
Ask a Policeman
This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in ...
The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLICEMAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term policeman is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Caught on camera: White policeman pepper sprays black activists at …
Hundreds of people from across America were attending the Movement for Black Lives event when the drama unfolded. The conference in ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Chinese policeman saves jumping suicidal man just in time with his …
A policeman has been hailed a hero after he saved the life of a man who jumped off a four-storey building. Police officer Liang Xiao rushed to ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
'They Fired Every 5 Minutes': Policeman Injured in Punjab Terror …
"We didn't realise when they came and started shooting...they were wearing army uniforms," the policeman, covered in blood, said as he was ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
4
WATCH: Policeman's son on a ride-along attacks man filming his …
Police in Evansville, Indiana, are reviewing their ride-along policies after the son of an officer — who was accompanying him for the evening ... «Raw Story, Jul 15»
5
Court told how Spanish woman assaulted policeman at Identity Malt...
A magistrate heard a police officer deny pushing a Spanish woman who suffered a broken arm after she skipped the queue at the Identity Malta ... «MaltaToday, Jul 15»
6
Retired policeman jailed after sexually abusing a boy more than 20 …
A Metropolitan police officer who left to become a social worker has been jailed for 18 months for sexually abusing a schoolboy more than 20 ... «Lincolnshire Echo, Jul 15»
7
Watch: Guangxi policeman piggybacks elderly man across busy road
Video footage showing a police officer piggybacking an 85-year-old man across the road after he got caught up in traffic could melt even the ... «Shanghaiist, Jul 15»
8
'Coward punch' on Stanthorpe policeman
A STANTHORPE policeman will require surgery after he was allegedly coward punched while attending a College Rd property at the weekend. «Warwick Daily News, Jul 15»
9
Policeman praised for good deed
Policeman praised for good deed ... bad publicity these days that I just wanted to give credit to a wonderful policeman by the name of Matt. «Martinsburg Journal, Jul 15»
10
Turkey policeman killed in Istanbul clashes
Istanbul (AFP) - A Turkish policeman was killed on Sunday during clashes with protesters in the flashpoint Istanbul district of Gazi which have ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Policeman [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/policeman>. Apr 2024 ».
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