Partisan
['pɑːtɪzæn;,pɑːtɪ'zæn] or ['pɑrtəzn]
Definition
(noun.) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries.
(noun.) a fervent and even militant proponent of something.
(adj.) devoted to a cause or party .
Checked by Edwin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.
(n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
(n.) Any member of such a corps.
(a.) Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
(a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.
(n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.
Typed by Jerry
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Adherent, follower, supporter, disciple, champion, votary, party man.[2]. Truncheon, staff.
Inputed by Jill
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Adherent, follower, party_man, henchman, clansman, supporter, disciple,[SeeADHERENT]
Inputed by Andre
Definition
n. an adherent of a party or a faction: one who is too strongly devoted to his own party or sect to be able to understand or to judge fairly of others.—adj. adhering to a party.—n. Par′tisanship.
n. a kind of halberd or long-handled weapon common in the Middle Ages: a soldier armed with such a weapon.
Checker: Thomas
Examples
- It may be suspected that some partisan of the King's [Darnley's] murder was there. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mosby had for a long time been commanding a partisan corps, or regiment, which operated in the rear of the Army of the Potomac. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Thompson, a sort of independent or partisan commander who was disputing with us the possession of south-east Missouri. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They can no longer be severely partisan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The friar was now completely accoutred as a yeoman, with sword and buckler, bow, and quiver, and a strong partisan over his shoulder. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The world of Islam was rent in twain by the spites, greeds, and partisan silliness of a handful of men and women in Medina. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Almost all these gentlemen were in heart partisans of the Emperor, and had their opinions about the speedy end of the campaign. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The prophecies of the French partisans began to pass for facts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He had proposed for Miss Swartz, but had been rejected scornfully by the partisans of that lady, who married her to a young sprig of Scotch nobility. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Our native oak, as his partisans called him, was visited truly by a nipping winter. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Checker: Otis