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defender
English
Alternative forms
- defendor, defendour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman defendour, from Old French defendeor
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??f?nd?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Noun
defender (plural defenders)
- someone who defends people or property
- (sports) one of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring
- a fighter who seeks to repel an attack
- (law, rare) a lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK)
- (Scotland, law) a defendant in a civil action
Translations
Anagrams
- fendered, redefend
Interlingua
Verb
defender
- to defend
Conjugation
Ladino
Etymology
From Latin d?fend?, d?fendere.
Verb
defender (Latin spelling)
- to prohibit
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese defender, from Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /d?.f?.?de?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.f?.?de(?)/
Verb
defender (first-person singular present indicative defendo, past participle defendido)
- to defend (repel an attack)
- Synonyms: (archaic) defensar, proteger
- to defend (represent as a legal professional)
- (rhetoric) to defend
- to support (to back a cause, party etc.)
- Synonym: ser a favor de
- (sports) to defend (to prevent the opponent from scoring)
- (sports, intransitive) to play in defense
- (higher education) to formally present a dissertation, thesis or project
- first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of defender
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of defender
- first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of defender
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of defender
Conjugation
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:defender.
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?. Cognate with English defend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /defen?de?/, [d?e.f?n??d?e?]
Verb
defender (first-person singular present defiendo, first-person singular preterite defendí, past participle defendido)
- to defend, to protect, to hold down (contra (“against”), de (“from”))
- Synonym: proteger
- to stand up for, to stick up for
- to uphold
- to prohibit
- Synonym: prohibir
- to claim
- (reflexive) to fight back
- (reflexive) to defend oneself, to protect oneself
- (reflexive) to stand up for oneself, to stick up for oneself
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fend off (+ de)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get by
Conjugation
Derived terms
- autodefenderse
Related terms
Further reading
- “defender” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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sentinel
English
Etymology
1570s, from Middle French sentinelle, from Old Italian sentinella (perhaps via a notion of "perceive, watch", compare Italian sentire (“to feel, hear, smell”)), from Latin senti? (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See sense.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?nt?n?l/
Noun
sentinel (plural sentinels)
- A sentry, watch, or guard.
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the entrance.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Empire
- that princes do keep due sentinel
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- (obsolete) A private soldier.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 33:
- “I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.”
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 33:
- (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
- A sentinel crab.
- (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
Translations
Verb
sentinel (third-person singular simple present sentinels, present participle (US) sentineling or (UK) sentinelling, simple past and past participle (US) sentineled or (UK) sentinelled)
- (transitive) To watch over as a guard.
- He sentineled the north wall.
- (transitive) To post as guard.
- He sentineled him on the north wall.
- (transitive) To post a guard for.
- He sentineled the north wall with just one man.
- 1873, Harper's New Monthly Magazine (volume 46, page 562)
- The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]
Translations
Anagrams
- lenients
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