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8-letter words (1 found)

MILITANT,

7-letter words (2 found)

IMITANT,INTIMAL,

6-letter words (6 found)

INTIMA,LATTIN,LIMINA,MATTIN,TITIAN,TITMAN,

5-letter words (12 found)

ANIMI,ATILT,INTIL,LIMAN,LIMIT,LITAI,MATIN,MILIA,TAINT,TAMIN,TANTI,TITAN,

4-letter words (34 found)

ALIT,AMIN,ANIL,ANTI,ILIA,INIA,INTI,LAIN,LANT,LATI,LIMA,LIMN,LINT,MAIL,MAIN,MALI,MALT,MANI,MATT,MILT,MINA,MINI,MINT,MITT,NAIL,TAIL,TAIN,TAIT,TALI,TIAN,TILT,TINA,TINT,TITI,

3-letter words (31 found)

AIL,AIM,AIN,AIT,ALT,AMI,ANI,ANT,ATT,ITA,LAM,LAT,LIN,LIT,MAL,MAN,MAT,MIL,MNA,NAM,NAT,NIL,NIM,NIT,TAI,TAM,TAN,TAT,TIL,TIN,TIT,

2-letter words (14 found)

AI,AL,AM,AN,AT,IN,IT,LA,LI,MA,MI,NA,TA,TI,

You can make 100 words from militant according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of militant

militant

Etymology

From Middle French militant, from Latin mīlitāns, present participle of mīlitāre (“to serve as a soldier”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪlɪtənt/

Adjective

militant (comparative more militant, superlative most militant)

  1. Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. [from 15th c.]
  2. Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

  • warrish

Translations

Noun

militant (plural militants)

  1. (obsolete) A soldier, a combatant. [17th–19th c.]
  2. An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction. [from 19th c.]
  3. (specifically, communism) someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

  • Militant Tendency
  • ultramilitant

Related terms

  • militance
  • military
  • militia

Translations

Catalan

Adjective

militant m or f (masculine and feminine plural militants)

  1. a militant

Verb

militant

  1. gerund of militar

Further reading

  • “militant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “militant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “militant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “militant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French militant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌmi.liˈtɑnt/
  • Hyphenation: mi‧li‧tant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Adjective

militant (comparative militanter, superlative militantst)

  1. militant (belligerent, tending to violence, defensive)

Inflection

Related terms

  • militair
  • militie

Noun

militant m (plural militanten)

  1. A militant, combatant.
  2. A devoted supporter, activist.

Derived terms

  • partijmilitant
  • vakbondsmilitant

French

Etymology

From militer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.li.tɑ̃/

Adjective

militant (feminine militante, masculine plural militants, feminine plural militantes)

  1. militant

Noun

militant m (plural militants)

  1. an activist, campaigner
    Synonyms: partisan, supporter, supporteur

Usage notes

  • Unlike in English, the French noun militant can mean any activist or supporter and does not connote an aggressive approach.

Participle

militant

  1. present participle of militer

Further reading

  • “militant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • limitant

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlitāns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miliˈtant/
  • Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

militant (strong nominative masculine singular militanter, comparative militanter, superlative am militantesten)

  1. militant

Declension

Latin

Verb

mīlitant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of mīlitō

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

militant m (feminine singular militanta, masculine plural militants, feminine plural militantas)

  1. militant

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French militant.

Adjective

militant m or n (feminine singular militantă, masculine plural militanți, feminine and neuter plural militante)

  1. activist

Declension

Swedish

Adjective

militant (comparative militantare, superlative militantast)

  1. militant (belligerent)
  2. militant (combative)

Declension

References

  • militant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • militant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • militant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org