different between militant vs feminazi

English

Etymology

From Middle French militant, from Latin m?lit?ns, present participle of m?lit?re (“to serve as a soldier”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l?t?nt/

Adjective

militant (comparative more militant, superlative most militant)

1. Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. [from 15th c.]
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 394:

     The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy.

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.]
   • 2008, Militants in Pakistan release 250 schoolchildren after taking them hostage, Wikinews:

     Officials in Pakistan have confirmed that at least 250 schoolchildren between 12 and 18 years old and several teachers were taken hostage by at least seven militants inside a high school in Domail.

3. Specifically, 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 (masculine and feminine plural militants)

1. A militant.

Verb

militant

1. present participle 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.
• “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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi.li?t?nt/
• Hyphenation: mi?li?tant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology

Borrowed from French militant.

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.t??/

Adjective

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

1. militant

Noun

militant m (plural militants)

1. An activist, campaigner

   Synonyms: partisan, supporter, supporteur

Verb

militant

1. present participle of militer

Further reading

• “militant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• limitant

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?lit?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mili?tant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

militant (comparative militanter, superlative am militantesten)

1. militant

Declension

Latin

Verb

m?litant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of m?lit?

Occitan

Adjective

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

1. militant

Romanian

Etymology

From French militant.

Adjective

militant m or n (feminine singular militant?, masculine plural militan?i, feminine and neuter plural militante)

1. activist

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• femi-Nazi, femme-Nazi

Etymology

Blend of feminist +? Nazi, popularized in 1992 by politically conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?m??n??tsi/, enPR: f?m'?-nät?s?

Adjective

feminazi (comparative more feminazi, superlative most feminazi)

1. (derogatory, potentially offensive) Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks superiority of women over men.

Translations

Noun

feminazi (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, potentially offensive) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:feminazi.

   Synonyms: fembitch, (often used by anti-feminists) femcunt, (rare) femifascist

Usage notes

• See the usage notes about Nazi.
• Limbaugh defined the term as “a feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur”, adding that “[t]here are fewer than twenty-five known Feminazis in the United States”. However, in practice he and others use the term in a much wider context.

Derived terms

• feminazism

Translations

References

Anagrams

• infamize

Galician

Etymology

Calque of English feminazi: blend of feminista +? nazi.

Adjective

feminazi m or f (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

Noun

feminazi m or f (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

Derived terms

• feminazismo m

Portuguese

Etymology

Calque of English feminazi: blend of feminista +? nazi.

Noun

feminazi m, f (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

Derived terms

• feminazismo m

Spanish

Alternative forms

• feminazista (rare)

Etymology

Calque of English feminazi: blend of feminista +? nazi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /femi?na?i/, [fe.mi?na.?i]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /femi?nasi/, [fe.mi?na.si]
• Hyphenation: fe?mi?na?zi

Adjective

feminazi (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

Noun

feminazi m or f (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

   Synonym: (see usage notes there) hembrista

Derived terms

• feminazismo m