English
Noun
Policeman (plural policemen)
- A member of a police force, especially one who is male.
- (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Thesaurus
Dogberry, G-man, John Law, MP, bailiff, beadle, beagle, bluebottle, bluecoat, bobby, bound bailiff, bull, captain, catchpole, chief of police, commissioner, constable, cop, copper, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, fed, federal, flatfoot, flic, fuzz, gendarme, government man, gumshoe, heat, inspector, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, man, marshal, mounted policeman, nab, narc, officer, paddy, patrolman, peace officer, peeler, pig, police, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policewoman, portreeve, reeve, roundsman, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sheriff, superintendent, tipstaff, tipstaves, trap, trooper
Pronunciation
Etymology
police
Translations
a member of a police force
- Afrikaans: polisieman (af)
- Arabic: شرطي (ar) (shúrTiy) m.
- Armenian: ոստիկան (hy) (vostikan)
- Belarusian: паліцэйскі (be) (palicéjski) m.
- Bulgarian: полицай (bg) (policáj) m.
- Chechen: милцо
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 警察 (cmn) (jǐngchá) m and f, 警官 (cmn) (jǐngguān) m and f
- Min Nan: 警官 (kéng-koaⁿ)
- Croatian: policajac (hr) m., policajka (hr) f., (obsolete) milicajac (hr) m., (obsolete) milicajka (hr) f.
- Czech: policista (cs) m.
- Esperanto: policisto (eo), policano (eo)
- Ewe: kpovitɔŋutsu m.
- French: policier (fr) m., gendarme (fr) m.
- Georgian: პოლიციელი (ka) (polic'ieli)
- German: Polizist (de) m., Polizistin (de) f.
- Greek: αστυφύλακας (el) m. (astyfýlakas), αστυνομικός (el) (astinomikós) m.
- Hebrew: שׁוֹטֵר (he) (shoter) m.
- Hindi: पुलिसवाला (hi) (pulisvālā) m.
- Hungarian: rendőr (hu) m., rendőrnő (hu) f.
- Icelandic: lögreglumaður (is) m., (colloquial) lögga (is) f.
- Ido: policisto (io)
- Italian: poliziotto (it) m., agente (it) m., gendarme (it) m., carabiniere (it)
- Japanese: 警察官 (ja) (けいさつかん, keisatsukan), 警官 (ja) (けいかん, keikan)
- Korean: 경찰관 (ko) (gyeongchalgwan) (警察官 (ko))
|
|
- Lower Sorbian: policist m., policaj m., policistka f.
- Macedonian: полицаец (mk) (policáec) m., (obs.) милицаец (mk) (milicáec) m.
- Maltese: pulizjott (mt) m., pulizjotta (mt) f., pulizija (mt) f.
- Ngarrindjeri: kainggaipari
- Persian: پاسبان (fa) (pâsbân)
- Polish: policjant (pl) m.
- Portuguese: policial (pt) m.
- Romanian: polițist (ro) m.
- Russian: полицейский (ru) (policéjskij) m., полицейская (ru) (policéjskaja) f., полисмен (ru) (polismén) m.
- Scottish Gaelic: maor-sìth (gd) m., poileas (gd) m.
- Serbian: milicioner (sr) m., milicionerka (sr) f.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: полицајац (sh) m., полицајка (sh) f.
- Roman: policajac (sh) m., policajka (sh) f.
- Slovak: policajt (sk) m.
- Slovene: policíst (sl) m., policístka (sl) f., milíčnik (sl) m., milíčnica (sl) f.
- Sotho: lepolesa (st)
- Spanish: policía (es) m., policial (es) m.
- Taos: pulísena
- Thai: ตำรวจ (th) (dtam-rùat)
- Ukrainian: поліціянт (uk) (policijánt) m., поліцейський (uk) (policéjs'kyj) m.
- Urdu: پولیس والا (ur) (pulis vālā) m.
- Vietnamese: cảnh sát (vi) (警察 (vi))
- Volapük: (male or female) poldan (vo), (male) hipoldan (vo), (female) jipoldan (vo)
|
See also