combatant

1. 1.

   someone who fights (or is fighting)

   Synonymsbattlerbelligerentfighterscrapper

   Broaderperson

   Narrowerdefenderboxerbrawlerbutterfencergladiatorgougerhell-kitemaulerskirmisher

1. 1.

   engaging in or ready for combat

   Similarmilitary

Other forms of combatant

plural

combatants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about combatant

What does combatant mean?

combatant means "someone who fights (or is fighting)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in combatant?

combatant has 3 syllables: com-bat-ant. The stress falls on "bat". In IPA it is /kəmˈbætənt/.

What is another word for combatant?

Close synonyms include battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is combatant a common word?

combatant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with combatant?

1 word rhymes with combatant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.