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- Dictionarycombatant/ˈkɒmbət(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. a person or nation engaged in fighting during a war: "in the long Russo-Swedish conflict, both combatants endured terrible sacrifices" Similar Opposite
adjective
- 1. engaged in fighting during a war: "all the combatant armies went to war with machine guns"
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a person who fights in a war. (Definition of combatant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Definition of combatant noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a person who fights in a war. (Definition of combatant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
A combatant is a person, group, or country that takes part in the fighting in a war.
Someone who fights, especially in a war, is a combatant. Sometimes entire countries are described as combatants during military conflicts. Other names for a combatant are "fighter," "attacker," or "soldier."
The meaning of COMBATANT is one that is engaged in or ready to engage in combat. How to use combatant in a sentence.
A combatant is one of the sides engaged in combat—active fighting. In war, enemy combatants are the opposing sides in the war or battle. In boxing and other martial arts, the two fighters can be called combatants.
