police – English noun declension

English noun forms of police

Noun: police
Singularpolice

Sample Sentences

  • There are nine Principles of Police:
  • ...
  • 7 To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen, in the interests of community welfare and existence. [1943, Charles Reith, British Police and the Democratic Ideal, pp. 3–4]
  • ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers? [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • In the criminal justice system, the People are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. [1990 Sept. 13, David Black & al., "Prescription for Death", Law & Order, 00:00:01]
  • Citadel Security is a volunteer police service answering to the Citadel Council. The 200,000 constables of C-Sec are responsible for maintaining public order in the densely populated Citadel. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Citadel Security Services (C-Sec) Codex entry:]
  • The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit. [2019 August 11, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2019:]
  • Call the police!
  • Police! help! Police! help!
  • There’s only one police in this town. [2012 July 16, Jonathan, Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Rises, spoken by Peter Foley (Matthew Modine), Warner Bros. Pictures:]
  • The Cook County Sheriff's Department has jurisdiction across most of Chicago but focuses on the unincorporated area and tasks like prisoner transport, leaving the rest to the Chicago Police Department.
  • Scotland Yard is, technically speaking, only the metropolitan police for Greater London but because of their importance they have special jurisdiction for some crimes across the United Kingdom.
  • Pearlman: Very clever, Lester. You got it all figured, huh?
  • Freamon: Me? I'm just a police. [2006 Sept. 17, David Mills, "Soft Eyes", The Wire, 00:06:50]
  • This time it is the worst kind of call a murder police can get. [2006, David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, →ISBN, page 440:]
  • Who called the fashion police?
  • Then there were the taste police, who thought that this bulky modern machine was an inappropriate intrusion […] [2010, Mary Beard, It's a Don's Life, →ISBN, page 147:]
  • A major drama has broken out in France after the local language police decreed one of their cute little accents to be largely redundant [2016 February 5, “How the circumflex became France's bête noire”, in The Guardian:]
  • Q. […] What did you do that day? — A. I was cleaning up around quarters.
  • Q. You had been on guard and went on police duty? You were policing, cleaning up around the barracks? — A. Yes, sir. [1907, Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, concerning the Affray at Brownsville, Tex. on the Night of August 13 and 14, 1906, volume 2:]
  • The notion of ‘police’ – that is, rational administration – was seen as a historical force which could bring civilized improvement to societies. [2002, Colin Jones, The Greta Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 218:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *tpelH-
3. Proto-Hellenic *ptólis
4. Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis)
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
6. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)
7. Ancient Greek πολῑ́της (polī́tēs)
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
11. Proto-Hellenic *-íā
12. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
13. Ancient Greek πολῑτείᾱ (polīteíā)bor.
14. Latin politiabor.
15. Middle French policeder.
16. English police
17. From Middle French police, from Latin polītīa (“state, government”), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía). Doublet of policy, polis (“police”), and polity. See: Latin Nouns 'polītīa', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πολιτεία'.

Verbs referencing "police"

Irish Nouns póilín, Zulu Nouns iphoyisa.