Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who betrays one's country, a cause, or a trust, especially one who commits treason.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To act the traitor toward; betray.
- noun One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one who is guilty of treason. See
treason . - noun One who betrays any trust; a person guilty of perfidy or treachery; one who violates confidence reposed in him.
- noun Synonyms Rebel, etc. See
insurgent . - Of or pertaining to a traitor; traitorous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
- adjective rare Traitorous.
- noun One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See
treason . - noun Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
violates hisallegiance andbetrays his/her country; one guilty oftreason ; one who, inbreach oftrust , delivers his country to anenemy , oryields up any fort or placeintrusted to his defense, orsurrenders anarmy or body of troops to the enemy, unless whenvanquished ; also, one who takes arms andlevies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy inconquering his country. - noun Hence, one who
betrays anyconfidence or trust; abetrayer . - verb To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
- adjective
traitorous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who says one thing and does another
- noun someone who betrays his country by committing treason
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For the traitor appears not a traitor� “He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Sometimes, if this became too repetitive, the term traitor would be substituted with the term unpatriotic to describe anyone who dared question anything or who dared to express dissenting views.
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I gave the legal definition of the term traitor, and all the elements involved.
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The fact of the matter is, devaluing the currency and then accusing anyone who actually reacts to the devaluing by raising prices as a traitor is a common enough (historically) thing for any government of any ideology to do, and it rarely ends well.
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The only logical argument that can be made that Bush might not be a traitor is the rather technical argument that, since CONGRESS HAS NEVER DECLARED WAR ON CHINA OR ON AL QAEDA, Bush cannot be a traitor since there is “no enemy” to be giving aid and comfort to.
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But calling Bush a traitor is a pretty good start too.
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To me a traitor is a political party that would fund and train alqueda – and who might that party be?
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There was what they called a traitor on the New York, the Yankee's flagship.
A Prisoner of Morro In the Hands of the Enemy Upton Sinclair 1923
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Mr. Jarniman, I hear, thinks it what he calls a traitor in the camp.
One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Mr. Jarniman, I hear, thinks it what he calls a traitor in the camp.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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