sentence

Noun

• the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
  • he served a prison term of 15 months
    
  • his sentence was 5 to 10 years
    
  • he is doing time in the county jail
    

• (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
  • the conviction came as no surprise
    

• a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
  • he always spoke in grammatical sentences
    

Verb

• pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
  • He was condemned to ten years in prison
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  prison term , time , conviction , judgment of conviction , condemnation , condemn , doom