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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
originFrom earlier sentrie, sentery, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of sentinel or sanctuary; or perhaps from Old French senteret (“a path”), diminutive of sentier, from Medieval Latin semitarius (“a path”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0