A.Word.A.Day--sentinel
sentinel (SEN-tuh-nuhl) noun
One who watches or keeps guard.
verb tr.
To watch over as a guard.
[From French sentinelle, from Italian sentinella, from Old Italian sentina,
vigilance, from sentire, to watch, from Latin sentire, to observe.]
"What is the Citadel? Sir, it is a fortress of duty, a sentinel of
responsibility, a bastion of antiquity, a towering bulwark of rigid
discipline, instilling within us high ideals, honor, uprightness, loyalty,
patriotism, obedience, initiative, leadership, professional knowledge and
pride in achievement -- from the school handbook."
Rick Reilly, What is the Citadel?, Sports Illustrated, Sep 14, 1992.
This week's theme: Words from the names of newspapers.
Example: The Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent, UK).
X-Bonus
If a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or
philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider. -Ralph Waldo
Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
