disputant

English

Etymology

dispute +‎ -ant

Pronunciation

  • (Canada) IPA(key): /dəˈspjutənt/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈspjuː.tənt/
  • CA synth(file)

Noun

disputant (plural disputants)

  1. A participant in a dispute.
    • 1893, Henry James, Collaboration
      One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.

Adjective

disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)

  1. Disputing; engaged in controversy.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

Catalan

Verb

disputant

  1. present participle of disputar

French

Verb

disputant

  1. present participle of disputer

Latin

Verb

disputant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of disputō
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