militant

Meanings

Adjective

Noun

  • A soldier, a combatant.
  • An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
  • Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics.

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Origin

  • From Middle French militant, from Latin mīlitāns, present participle of mīlitāre.

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