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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person engaged in hostile encounter |
| Synonyms: | GI, aggressor, antagonist, assailant, battler, belligerent, boxer, brawler, bruiser, bully, champion, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, duelist, gladiator, heavy*, jouster, mercenary, militant, opponent, person-at-arms, pugilist, punching bag, rival, scrapper, serviceperson, slugger, soldier, tanker, warlord, warrior, wildcat |
| Antonyms: | peacemaker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gladiator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combatant |
| Synonyms: | boxer, contender, fighter |
| Main Entry: | militant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who fights, is aggressive |
| Synonyms: | activist, belligerent, combatant, demonstrator, fighter, objector, partisan, protester, rioter, warrior |
| Main Entry: | soldier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person serving in military |
| Synonyms: | GI, Green Beret, airforce member, cadet, cavalryperson, commando, conscript, draftee, enlisted person, fighter, guard, guerrilla, gunner, infantry, infantryperson, marine, mercenary, military person, musketeer, officer, paratrooper, pilot, private, rank, recruit, scout, selectee, serviceperson, soldier, soldier-at-arms, trooper, veteran, volunteer, warmonger, warrior |
| Main Entry: | warmonger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | militarist |
| Synonyms: | combatant, fighter, hawk, jingoist, militant |
| Main Entry: | warrior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who fights in combat |
| Synonyms: | GI, battler, champion, combatant, conscript, enlisted person, fighter, fighting person, hero, serviceperson, soldier, trooper |
| Main Entry: | pugilist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boxer |
| Synonyms: | contender, fighter, prize fighter |
| Main Entry: | inciter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agitator |
| Synonyms: | adjy, advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, disrupter, dissident, dogmatist, fighter, firebrand, fomenter, heretic, incendiary, instigator, leftist, malcontent, mover, partisan, propagandist, provocateur, pusher, rabble-rouser, radical, reactionary, rebel, reformer, revisionist, revolutionary, ringleader, sparkplug, troublemaker, wave maker, zealot |
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