Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Fighting or warring.
- adjective Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the service of a cause.
- noun A fighting, warring, or aggressive person or party.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fighting; warring; engaged in warfare; pertaining to warfare or conflict.
- Having a combative character or tendency; warlike.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.
- adjective the Christian church on earth, which is supposed to be engaged in a constant warfare against its enemies, and is thus distinguished from the
church triumphant , in heaven.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
aggressive orcombative - adjective
fighting orwarlike ;belligerent - adjective Active in an
aggressive way in support of apolitical orsocial cause (often associated with extremeleft-wing politics). - noun An aggressive or fighting person.
- noun One who serves as a
soldier . - noun One who supports a Trotskyite political view or engages in aggressive left-wing politics.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
- adjective engaged in war
- noun a militant reformer
- adjective showing a fighting disposition
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Militant opponents of the pullout have threatened to block roads this week and to bring Israel to a standstill when the army closes off the Gaza settlements in preparation for the evacuation. week before, Greenberg used the term militant to describe a Palestinian who ambushed and killed an Israeli motorist.
CAMERA Snapshots 2009
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It defines the term militant to mean, 'a person or group willing to use force or strong pressure to achieve her aims '.
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It defines the term militant to mean, 'a person or group willing to use force or strong pressure to achieve her aims '.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his country is fully entitled to stop what he called "efforts to smuggle" weapons into Hamas-controlled Gaza - which he called the militant Palestinian group's "terror enclave."
Irish Ship Drops Out of Gaza Flotilla; Organizers Vow to Sail 2011
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his country is fully entitled to stop what he called "efforts to smuggle" weapons into Hamas-controlled Gaza - which he called the militant Palestinian group's "terror enclave."
Irish Ship Drops Out of Gaza Flotilla; Organizers Vow to Sail 2011
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Lady Warsi is to warn of what she calls the "militant secularisation" of society and propose Christianity is given a central role in public life when she leads a high-level government delegation on an official visit to the pope.
'Militant secularisation' taking hold of British society, says Lady Warsi 2012
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his country is fully entitled to stop what he called "efforts to smuggle" weapons into Hamas-controlled Gaza - which he called the militant Palestinian group's "terror enclave."
Irish Ship Drops Out of Gaza Flotilla; Organizers Vow to Sail 2011
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his country is fully entitled to stop what he called "efforts to smuggle" weapons into Hamas-controlled Gaza - which he called the militant Palestinian group's "terror enclave."
Irish Ship Drops Out of Gaza Flotilla; Organizers Vow to Sail 2011
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Now, the Pakistan air force is saying they were involved in an air strike on what they call a militant training camp.
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The IDF, the Israel Defense Forces, saying they were targeting what they called a militant -- a Hezbollah militant's home in this refugee camp.
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