Nearby Words
warrior [wawr-ee-er, wawr-yer, wor-ee-er, wor-yer] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
warrior [wawr-ee-er, wawr-yer, wor-ee-er, wor-yer]
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: combatant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fighter
Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, assailant, attacker, battler, belligerent, contender, enemy, foe, serviceman, soldier, warrior
Main Entry: contestant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: competitor
Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, aspirant, battler, candidate, challenger, combatant, contender, contester, dark horse, disputant, entrant, favorite, hopeful, member, participant, player, rival, scrapper, team member, warrior
Example Sentences
  • For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all.
  • One venerable warrior takes holy communion alongside the territory's chief executive.
  • Instead, he may have been a warrior or the victim of an ambush who fought hard to save his life.
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Main Entry: fighter
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
Main Entry: mercenary
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who fights, kills for money
Synonyms: hireling, legionnaire, merc, professional soldier, slave, soldier of fortune, warrior
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: protagonist
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who takes the lead; central figure of narrative
Synonyms: advocate, central character, champion, combatant, exemplar, exponent, hero, idol, lead, lead character, leader, mainstay, prime mover, principal, standard-bearer, warrior
Notes: protagonist is Greek for 'first (important) actor' or 'first struggler' and by extension is used for a person who drives the action in a situation or is the main character in a literary work; the protagonist is the hero or heroine and an antagonist is his/her principal opponent
Antonyms: antagonist
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
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Combatant.
Category: 1. Conditional Antagonism
Synonyms:
-nouns
combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper, swashbuckler, fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough., prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler; fighting-cock, game-cock; ., warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent; campaigner, veteran; swordsman, sabreur, redcoat, military man, Rajput., armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale; minuteman [Am. Hist.]; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops., janissary; myrmidon; Mama, Mameluke; spahee, spahi, Cossack, Croat, Pandoz; irregular, franctireur, tirailleur, bash-bazouk, guerilla, condottiere., mercenary; bushwhacker, free lance, companion; Hessian., levy, draught; Landwehr, Landsturm; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies., private, private soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, food for powder; officer (commander); subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; halberdier, lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowmann., horse and foot; horse soldier, foot soldier; cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, infantry, light horse, voltigeur, uhlan, mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier; Foot Guards, Horse Guards; gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman, matross; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantry, rifles,chasseur, zouave; military train, coolie., army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers., war horse, charger, destrier., marine, man-of-war's man (sailor) [more]; navy, wooden walls, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron., man-of-war; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; destroyer; submarine; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S., Her/His Majesty's Ship; line of battle ship, ship of the line; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; privateer;, tender; store ship, troop ship; transport, catamaran.
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