crusader

IPA: krusˈeɪdɝ

(historical) A fighter in the medieval Crusades who had taken the Cross.
(figurative) A person engaged in a crusade.
(Islam, politics, derogatory, Islamism) An American, especially a soldier or leader who wages war against Islamist militants.
(Islam, politics, derogatory, Islamism, religious slur) A Westerner; a Christian, especially of European descent or a missionary.
(Islam, politics, derogatory, Islamism) (either attributively or in the plural) The United States and its Western allies.

Examples of "crusader" in Sentences

The school mascot is the Crusader.
The crusaders captured and sacked the city.
The Ferengi were the Crusaders of Christendom.
A hermit waits for the arrival of the crusaders.
The al Qaeda leader wants Muslims to see what he calls a crusader Zionist war against Islam.
Then he urges Muslims to fight holy war in Darfur against what he calls crusader U.N. troops.
Libyan television reported that the air forces of what it called the "crusader enemy" had hit a hospital on the outskirts of Tripoli.
Libyan state television reported that several sites in Tripoli had been subject to new attacks by what it called the "crusader enemy".
They say they clashed with the -- their forces clashed with what they call crusader forces and they killed some and took others prisoner.
State television in Libya said on Tuesday there had been more attacks by what it called the "crusader enemy," Reuters reported, but the broadcaster struck a defiant tone.
Libyan state TV reported that what it called the "crusader enemy" had bombed civilian areas of Tripoli, as well as fuel storage tanks supplying the western city of Misrata.
Nevertheless, the motif of the crusader is apparent, in his goal to purge the world of these Muslims that are invading Spain and crawling up to the Pyrenees, as well as remaining a true and pious knight who believes only in God, and therefore as Him on his side.