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A gendarme is a French police officer — though actually, in France this is not quite the same as the city police you might picture. France has more than one police family. The police who work in big cities are one group. Gendarmes belong to the gendarmerie: they are organised more like soldiers, and they often look after the countryside, smaller towns, roads, and some special jobs. They can still stop you, ask for papers, and take you to the station; they are real police, just a different kind. In English we almost only use this word when we are talking about France, or about a country that copied the French system. It can sound a little story-book or old-fashioned, like a man in a film with a stiff hat a car to the side of the road. You would not call a police officer in Taiwan a gendarme.
法國憲兵（最接近台灣的「憲兵」，不是一般派出所警察）
組成Borrowed from French gendarme. That French word was squeezed out of gens d'armes, “people of arms” — armed men. English took the already-short French form.
同家族的字
- gendarmeriethe French force that gendarmes belong to
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gendarmenoun/ʒɒnˈdɑːm/
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A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
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A policeman.
- The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.
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A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
- The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.
- The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。