partizan

1. 1.

   devoted to a cause or party

   Synonymspartisan

   Similarparty-spiritedtendentious

Other forms of partizan

plural

partizans·

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 partizan

What does partizan mean?

partizan means "an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in partizan?

partizan has 3 syllables: par-ti-zan. The stress falls on "par".

What is another word for partizan?

Close synonyms include enthusiast, partisan, partisan, partisan. 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 partizan a common word?

partizan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.