militant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
Aggressively supporting of an idea, group, political or social cause, etc.; adamant, combative.

noun

A soldier, a combatant.
An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
Someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant.

/ˈmɪlɪtənt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-militant.wav

militant more militant most militant militants

From Middle French militant, from Latin mīlitāns, present participle of mīlitāre (“to serve as a soldier”).

warrish

militance military militia

antimilitant hypermilitant militantism militantly militantness Militant Tendency nonmilitant supermilitant ultramilitant unmilitant

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