different between military vs militant

English

Alternative forms

• milertary

Etymology

From Old French militaire, from Latin m?lit?ris, from m?les (“soldier”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?l.?.t?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?l.?.t??.i/

Adjective

military (comparative more military, superlative most military)

1. Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. (Canada, US) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).

3. Relating to war.
4. Relating to armies or ground forces.

Translations

Noun

military (plural military or militaries)

1. Armed forces.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• militia

See also

• martial
• abbreviation: mil.
• army/Army
• navy
• air force/Air Force
• marines/Marines
• Merchant Marine
• US National Guard
• Coast Guard

Anagrams

• limitary

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