militant

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɪtənt/

militant (comparative more militant, superlative most militant)

1. Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. [from 15th c.]
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 394:

     The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy.

2. Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. [from 17th c.]

• warrish

militant (plural militants)

1. (obsolete) A soldier, a combatant. [17th-19th c.]
2. An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction. [from 19th c.]
   • 2008, Militants in Pakistan release 250 schoolchildren after taking them hostage, Wikinews:

     Officials in Pakistan have confirmed that at least 250 schoolchildren between 12 and 18 years old and several teachers were taken hostage by at least seven militants inside a high school in Domail.

3. Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyite political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics. [from 20th c.]

• Militant Tendency
• ultramilitant

• military
• militia

militant

1. present participle of militar

Borrowed from French militant.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmi.liˈtɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧li‧tant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

militant (comparative militanter, superlative militantst)

1. militant (belligerent, tending to violence, defensive)

militant m (plural militanten)

1. militant, combatant

From militer.

• IPA^(key): /mi.li.tɑ̃/

militant (feminine singular militante, masculine plural militants, feminine plural militantes)

1. militant

militant m (plural militants)

1. activist, campaigner

   Synonyms: partisan, supporter, supporteur

militant

1. present participle of militer

• “militant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• limitant

Borrowed from Latin mīlitāns.

• IPA^(key): /miliˈtant/

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• Rhymes: -ant

militant (comparative militanter, superlative am militantesten)

1. militant

mīlitant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of mīlitō