Meaning

• The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

  "The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second."

• The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

  "The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler."

• A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

• A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.

• (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.

  "The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard."

• A formula with no free variables.

• Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

• Sense; meaning; significance.

• One's opinion; manner of thinking.

• A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

Meaning

• To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.

  "The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine."

• To decree or announce as a sentence.

• To utter sententiously.