traitor

1. 1.

   someone who betrays his country by committing treason

   Synonymstreasonist

   Broadercriminal

   Narrowercollaboratorfifth columnisttraitressArnold
2. 2.

   a person who says one thing and does another

   Synonymsdouble-crosserdouble-dealertwo-timerbetrayer

   Broaderdeceiver

   NarrowerJudas

Other forms of traitor

plural

traitors·

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 traitor

What does traitor mean?

traitor means "someone who betrays his country by committing treason". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in traitor?

traitor has 2 syllables: trai-tor. The stress falls on "trai". In IPA it is /ˈtɹeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for traitor?

Close synonyms include treasonist, double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer. 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 traitor a common word?

traitor is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 traitor?

4 words rhyme with traitor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.