Defender
[dɪ'fendə(r)] or [dɪ'fɛndɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who cares for persons or property.
(noun.) a fighter who holds out against attack.
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Definition
(n.) One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Asserter, pleader.[2]. Champion, vindicator, protector.
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Examples
- On his return to Pennsylvania he again took his seat in this body, and continued a steady defender of the liberties of the people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A dog Jew, echoed the Templar, to approach a defender of the Holy Sepulchre? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The defender of the absent has a right to favourable reception from all who value truth, and honour manhood. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This event is of somewhat historical interest, in that the two mainsails which were used were procured from the owner of the famous American cup defender, the well-remembered Reliance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The aim of the assailants seemed to be to enter the mill, that of the defenders to beat them off. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They become the citizen-subjects of the state; its defenders in war; its internal guardians in peace. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In 1529 the Turks besieged Vienna, and were defeated rather by the weather than by the defenders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was enough to put us out of conceit of such defenders, if we had really wanted any. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The defenders of the works could not have fired upon us without endangering their own men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In 1521 the French took the town of Pampeluna in Spain from the Emperor Charles V, and Ignatius was one of the defenders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is there the defenders are armed with the irresistible explosives. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Vicksburg was not yet taken it is true, nor were its defenders demoralized by any of our previous moves. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The very men who at first made it necessary to guard the roads in southern Illinois became the defenders of the Union. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Had the defenders waited for this signal? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- By nightfall the late defenders of Camp Jackson were all within the walls of the St. Louis arsenal, prisoners of war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- During all that period not one of the defenders left his post, till he dropped from it dead or wounded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He seemed to have forgotten that lines in rear of an army hold themselves while their defenders are fighting in their front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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