combatant

Roget category 726

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.4. Antagonism
›› 5.4.2. Active antagonism

#726. Combatant

noun

combatant — disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent — competitor, rival, corrival^† — fighter, assailant — champion, Paladin — mosstrooper^†, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough.
prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler — fighting-cock, game-cock — warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent^† — campaigner, veteran — swordsman, sabreur^†, redcoat, military man, Rajput.
armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth^†, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible^† — auxiliary, bersagliere^†, brave — garde-nationale, garde-royale [Fr.] — minuteman [U.S.] — auxiliary forces, reserve forces — reserves, posse comitatus [Lat.], national guard, gendarme, beefeater — guards, guardsman — yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.
janissary — myrmidon — Mama, Mameluke — spahee^†, spahi^†, Cossack, Croat, Pandoz.
irregular, guerilla, partisan, condottiere^† — franctireur [Fr.], tirailleur^†, bashi-bazouk — [guerilla organization names: list], vietminh, vietcong — shining path — contras — huk, hukbalahap.
mercenary, soldier of fortune — hired gun, gunfighter, gunslinger — bushwhacker, free lance, companion — Hessian.
hit man torpedo, soldier.
levy, draught — Landwehr [G.], Landsturm [G.] — conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies.
infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier — Tommy Atkins^†, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy^†, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder — officer etc. (commander) 745 — subaltern, ensign, standard bearer — spearman, pikeman^† — spear bearer — halberdier^†, lancer — musketeer, carabineer^†, rifleman, jager [G.], sharpshooter, yager^†, skirmisher — grenadier, fusileer^† — archer, bowman.
horse and foot — horse soldier — cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur [Fr.], uhlan, mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar — light dragoon, heavy dragoon — heavy — cuirassier [Fr.] — Foot Guards, Horse Guards.
gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman^†, matross^† — sapper, sapper and miner — engineer — light infantry, rifles, chasseur [Fr.], zouave — military train, coolie.
army, corps d'armee [Fr.], host, division, battalia^†, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia^†, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad — piquet, picket, guard, rank, file — legion, phalanx, cohort — cloud of skirmishers.
war horse, charger, destrier.
marine, man-of-war's man etc. (sailor) 269 — navy, wooden walls, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron.
[ships of war] man-of-war — destroyer — submarine — minesweeper — torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer — patrol torpedo boat, PT boat — torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.
M.S. — battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line — aircraft carrier, carrier.
flattop [Coll.] — helicopter carrier — missile platform, missile boat — ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery — first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel — flagship, guard ship, cruiser — armored cruiser, protected cruiser — privateer.
[supporting ships] tender — store ship, troop ship — transport, catamaran — merchant marine.

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