partisan
IPA: pˈɑrtʌzʌn
noun
- An adherent to a party or faction.
- A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
- A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
- (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
- (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting.
- (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.
adjective
- Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops.
- Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party.
- Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause.
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Examples of "partisan" in Sentences
- The title of the article is also partisan.
- The material is partisan and irrelevant to the biography.
- A group of partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent.
- It is bound to offend the partisans of deceit and artifice.
- The partisan nature of many of the resources is irrelevant.
- It is not the role of Wikipedia to be partisan or polemical.
- This is the proof that the Partisans collaborated with the Axis.
- However, the cost of Kugelblitz to the Partisans was staggering.
- The article is extremely derogatory, and the sources are partisan.
- He was arrested by the partisans patrol and joined the partisans in the woods.
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