Definition of combatant

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Combatant (n.) One who engages in combat.

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Tournament :: Tournament (n.) A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle..
Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant..
Recreant :: Recreant (a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven..
Battailant :: Battailant (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
Force :: Force (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation..
Tilt :: Tilt (v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances..
Gladiatorian :: Gladiatorian (a.) Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general..
Fight :: Fight (v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.
Fighter :: Fighter (n.) One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.
Combatant :: Combatant (n.) One who engages in combat.
Part :: Part (n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants..
Knockdown :: Knockdown (n.) A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Melee :: Melee (n.) A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.
Soldier :: Soldier (n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
Combatant :: Combatant (a.) Contending; disposed to contend.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants..
Battailant :: Battailant (n.) A combatant.
Noncombatant :: Noncombatant (n.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy..
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament..
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