policeman

== English == === Etymology === From police + -man. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pəˈliːsmən/ Hyphenation: po‧lice‧man === Noun === policeman (plural policemen) (law enforcement) A police officer, usually a male. (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis. (entomology) Any skipper of the genus Coeliades. (ice hockey) Synonym of enforcer. ==== Synonyms ==== (member of a police force): See Thesaurus:police officer (glass rod with rubber cap): rubber policeman ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → French: policeman → Māori: pirihimana → Marshallese: bwilijmāāņ → Welsh: plismon ==== Translations ==== === See also === constable === Anagrams === melanopic == French == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English policeman. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔ.lis.man/ === Noun === policeman m (plural policemans) policeman (in Anglophone countries) === Further reading === “policeman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012