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say it: nahn-kuhm-BAT-uhnt
noncombatant is an adjective and noun meaning "used of civilians in time of war". It is pronounced /ˌnɑnkəmˈbætənt/ — nahn-kuhm-BAT-uhnt. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for noncombatant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.