Traitor
['treɪtə] or ['tretɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who betrays his country by committing treason.
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Definition
(n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
(n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
(a.) Traitorous.
(v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Betrayer (especially of one's country), deceiver, renegade, apostate, rebel, insurgent, revolter, deserter, perfidious person.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rebel, renegade, betrayer, turncoat,[See FEATURE]
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Definition
n. one who being trusted betrays: one guilty of treason: a deceiver:—fem. Trait′ress.—n. Trait′orism.—adv. Trait′orly (Shak.).—adj. Trait′orous like a traitor: perfidious: treasonable.—adv. Trait′orously.—n. Trait′orousness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a traitor in your dream, foretells you will have enemies working to despoil you. If some one calls you one, or if you imagine yourself one, there will be unfavorable prospects of pleasure for you.
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Examples
- Traitor and false witness! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yo'll ca' me traitor and that—yo I mean t' say,' addressing Slackbridge, 'but 'tis easier to ca' than mak' out. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Did I feel like a dark combination of traitor and pickpocket when I thought of that girl? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Traitor of Bois-Guilbert, it is Ivanhoe commands thee! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is--oblivion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This man did not look like a traitor, though he had an exceedingly self-confident and conceited air. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I don't mince words--a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer, who meant to have his son-in-law back all along. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Do you feel like a dark combination of traitor and pickpocket when you think of that girl? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was executed as a traitor. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There was among the twelve apostles one traitor, who betrayed with a kiss. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You traitor! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I wish I could have spoken with calm and dignity, or I wish my sense had sufficed to make me hold my tongue; that traitor tongue trippedfaltered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- No more to say--a--or listen to persuasion--go immediately--not capable--a--bear society--upon the track of devoted and doomed traitor--HEEP! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I ask you, William, could I suppose that the Emperor of Austria was a damned traitor--a traitor, and nothing more? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Idris, you will not act the traitor towards me? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This was true: and while he spoke my very conscience and reason turned traitors against me, and charged me with crime in resisting him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- That Golz should be one of the traitors. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Volumnia hastens to express her opinion that the shocking people ought to be tried as traitors and made to support the party. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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