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English

Etymology

From Middle French patriote, from Late Latin patri?ta (“fellow countryman”) from the Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s, “of the same country”), from ?????? (patrís, “father land", "country”), from ????? (pat?r, “father”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæ.t?i.?t/, /?pe?.t?i.?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pe?.t(?)?i.?t/

Noun

patriot (plural patriots)

1. A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
   • 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[2]

     Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.

2. (archaic) A fellow countryman, a compatriot.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of J. S. Mill to this entry?), On Liberty

Derived terms

Translations

References

• patriot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Czech

Noun

patriot m

1. patriot

   Synonym: vlastenec

Related terms

• See páter

Further reading

• patriot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• patriot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French patriote, from Latin patri?ta, from Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.tri??t/
• Hyphenation: pa?tri?ot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

patriot m (plural patriotten, diminutive patriotje n)

1. patriot
2. (historical, chiefly Netherlands) A republican opponent of the House of Orange-Nassau during the second half of the eighteenth century, in favour of centralisation and administrative rationalisation.
3. (obsolete) compatriot

   Synonyms: landgenoot, medeburger

Derived terms

• patrizot

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: patriot

Adjective

patriot (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) patriotic

Inflection

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch patriot, from Middle French patriote, from Latin patri?ta, from Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pat??ri?t?]
• Hyphenation: pat?ri?ot

Noun

patriot (first-person possessive patriotku, second-person possessive patriotmu, third-person possessive patriotnya)

1. patriot: a person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.

Related terms

Further reading

• “patriot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s)

Noun

patriot m (definite singular patrioten, indefinite plural patrioter, definite plural patriotene)

1. a patriot

Derived terms

• patriotisk
• patriotisme

References

• “patriot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s)

Noun

patriot m (definite singular patrioten, indefinite plural patriotar, definite plural patriotane)

1. a patriot

Derived terms

• patriotisk
• patriotisme

References

• “patriot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Patriot, from French patriote, from Latin patriota, from Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /patr?ot/
• Hyphenation: pat?ri?ot

Noun

patrìot, patri?t m (Cyrillic spelling ???????, ????????)

1. patriot

Declension

Synonyms

• r?dolj?b
• d?molj?b

References

• “patriot” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

English

Etymology 1

From French escouade, from Italian squadra (“square”) (whence also French escadre).

Alternative forms

• escouade (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?skw?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?skw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

squad (plural squads)

1. A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
   1. A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
      • 1912, in The New England magazine, volume 47:

        A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.

   2. (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
   3. (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
      • 1970, TV Guide:

        At one point, the 400-ton Calypso was brought to a standstill by a squad of squid which clogged the engines and caused a power failure. Other, highlights included an attack by predatory blue sharks, […]

      • 2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, Let's Go Publications:

        The Sea Life Centre retains a squad of squid and such.

      • 2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 546:

        There's several new symbols next to the doorway symbol. Beso pushed all six of them without waiting to see what they brought; like a herd of charging rhinos or rampaging squad of squid. Next best thing though.

      • 2017, Kristen Joy Wilks, Athens Ambuscade, Pelican Ventures Book Group (?ISBN)

        I pulled in as deep a breath as my gag allowed and began relaxing my body. I used a little trick I'd learned in college. I imagined that a friendly squad of squid were massaging every muscle on the bottoms of my feet; the tension began to drain.

2. (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.

Derived terms

• firing squad
• flying squad
• God squad

Related terms

• squadron

Translations

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Verb

squad (third-person singular simple present squads, present participle squadding, simple past and past participle squadded)

1. (intransitive) To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.

   We squad on the fifth of the month.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Compare squick (“disgust”), squalid (“dirty”) with similar initial sounds.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skwæd/

Noun

squad

1. (Britain, dialect) Sloppy mud. [from the mid-17th c.]
   • 1875 March 13, Leicester Chronicle, quoted in the EDD:

     The lass ran all among the muck and squad.

   • 1895, Alfred Tennyson, The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson: Poet-laureate, page 791:

     An' she did n't not solidly mean I wur / gawin' that waäy to the bad,

     Fur the gell was as howry a trollope as / iver traäpes'd i' the squad.

Further reading

• Robert Eden George Cole, A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire (1886), page 140

Anagrams

• quads

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?kwad/, [es?kwað?]

Noun

squad m (plural squads or squad)

1. squad