Definition of sergeants:
(n) :
(military) A UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
(n) :
The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
(n) :
A bailiff.
(n) :
(law, historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
(n) :
A fish, the píntano (Abudefduf saxatilis), a species of damselfish.
(n) :
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinct from the false sergeants.