Sentence

1. n. A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
2. n. Sense; meaning; significance.
3. n. An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
4. n. A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
5. n. In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
6. n. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.