militant

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪlɪtənt/

Adjective

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.]

Synonyms

Translations

Noun

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.]
  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.]

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Verb

militant

  1. present participle of militar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French militant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌmi.liˈtɑnt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: mi‧li‧tant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Adjective

militant (comparative militanter, superlative militantst)

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

Inflection

Inflection of militant
uninflected militant
inflected militante
comparative militanter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial militantmilitanterhet militantst
het militantste
indefinite m./f. sing. militantemilitanteremilitantste
n. sing. militantmilitantermilitantste
plural militantemilitanteremilitantste
definite militantemilitanteremilitantste
partitive militantsmilitanters—

Noun

militant m (plural militanten)

  1. militant, combatant

French

Etymology

From militer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.li.tɑ̃/

Adjective

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

  1. militant

Noun

militant m (plural militants)

  1. activist, campaigner
    Synonyms: partisan, supporter, supporteur

Verb

militant

  1. present participle of militer

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlitāns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miliˈtant/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

militant (comparative militanter, superlative am militantesten)

  1. militant

Declension

Comparative forms of militant
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist militanter sie ist militanter es ist militanter sie sind militanter
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative militanterer militantere militanteres militantere
genitive militanteren militanterer militanteren militanterer
dative militanterem militanterer militanterem militanteren
accusative militanteren militantere militanteres militantere
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der militantere die militantere das militantere die militanteren
genitive des militanteren der militanteren des militanteren der militanteren
dative dem militanteren der militanteren dem militanteren den militanteren
accusative den militanteren die militantere das militantere die militanteren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein militanterer eine militantere ein militanteres (keine) militanteren
genitive eines militanteren einer militanteren eines militanteren (keiner) militanteren
dative einem militanteren einer militanteren einem militanteren (keinen) militanteren
accusative einen militanteren eine militantere ein militanteres (keine) militanteren

Latin

Verb

mīlitant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of mīlitō
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