Noun: sheriff
| Singular | sheriff |
| Plural | sheriffs |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sheriff
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English shirreve, in turn inherited from Old English sċīrġerēfa, corresponding to shire + reeve. There is no etymological connection to Sharif (Arabic شَرِيف (šarīf)), an Arabic title of honour with cognates in other languages, including Persian, Punjabi, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. See: Middle English Nouns '
shirreve', Middle English Nouns '
shirreve', Old English Nouns '
sċīrġerēfa', Old English Nouns '
sċīrġerēfa'.
Verbs referencing "sheriff"
Dutch Nouns
sheriff, Italian Nouns
sceriffo, Hungarian Nouns
seriff, German Nouns
Sheriff, Finnish Nouns
sheriffi, Romanian Nouns
șerif, Greek Nouns
σερίφης.