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combatant
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Origin
com·bat·ant
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noun
1.
a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
2.
a person or group that fights.
adjective
3.
combating
;
fighting:
the combatant armies.
4.
disposed to
combat
;
combative.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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Origin:
1425–75;
late Middle English
combataunt
<
Middle French
combatant.
See
combat
,
-ant
Related forms
pre·com·bat·ant,
noun
un·com·bat·ant,
adjective
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combatant
(ˈkɒmbət
ə
nt, ˈkʌm-)
—
n
1.
a person or group engaged in or prepared for a fight, struggle, or dispute
—
adj
2.
engaged in or ready for combat
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Word Origin & History
combatant
1489 (n.), from O.Fr. combatant, prp. of combattre (also used as a n. in O.Fr.); see
combat
. As an adj., attested in Eng. from 1630s.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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