Definitions for Combatant
kəmˈbæt nt, ˈkɒm bə təntcom·bat·ant

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapperadjective

   someone who fights (or is fighting)

2. combatantadjective

   engaging in or ready for combat

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. combatantnoun

   An armed fighter.

   Gladiators were combatants who fought to the death to entertain the public.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Combatantnoun

   Etymology: combattant, French.

   1. He that fights with another; duellist; antagonist in arms.

   So frown’d the mighty combatants, that hell
   Grew darker at their frown. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.

   Who, single combatant,
   Duel’d their armies rank’d in proud array,
   Himself an army. John Milton, Agonistes, l. 344.

   He with his sword unsheath’d, on pain of life,
   Commands both combatants to cease their strife. Dryden.

   Like despairing combatants they strive against you, as if they had beheld unveiled the magical shield of Ariosto, which dazzled the beholders with too much brightness. Dryden.

   2. A champion.

   When any of those combatants strips his terms of ambiguity, I shall think him a champion for knowledge. John Locke.

   3. With for before the thing defended.

   Men become combatants for those opinions. John Locke.

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1. Combatant

   Combatant is the legal status of a person entitled to directly participate in hostilities during an armed conflict, and may be intentionally targeted by an adverse party for their participation in the armed conflict. Combatants are not afforded immunity from being directly targeted in situ­ations of armed conflict. The legal definition of "combatant" is found at article 43(2) of Additional Protocol I (AP1) to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It states that "Members of the armed forces of a Party to a conflict (other than medical personnel and chaplains covered by Article 33 of the Third Convention) are combatants, that is to say, they have the right to participate directly in hostilities." Consequently, on the other hand combatants, as a rule, are legal targets themselves for the opposite side regardless the specific circumstances at hand, in other words, they can be attacked regardless of the specific circumstances simply due to their status, so as to deprive their side of their support. In addition to having the right to participate in hostilities, combatants have the right to the status of prisoners of war when captured during an international armed conflict. "While all combatants are obliged to comply with the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, violations of these rules shall not deprive a combatant of his right to be a combatant or, if he falls into the power of an adverse Party, of his right to be a prisoner of war."

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1. combatant

   A combatant is a person, group, or country that is engaged in fighting or warfare. It can be used to refer to a soldier or a member of an armed force who is participating directly in a conflict or war. The term can also be applied to non-military persons who engage in hostile activities during a conflict. It implies active participation in combat or warfare.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Combatantadjective

   contending; disposed to contend

2. Combatantnoun

   one who engages in combat

3. Etymology: [F. combattant.]

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1. Combatant

   A combatant is someone who takes a direct part in the hostilities of an armed conflict. If a combatant follows the law of war, then they are considered a privileged combatant, and upon capture they qualify as a prisoner of war under the Third Geneva Convention. An unprivileged combatant is someone, such as a mercenary, who takes a direct part in the hostilities but who upon capture does not qualify for prisoner of war status.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Combatant in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Combatant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Combatant in a Sentence

1. Ukrainian Parliament:

   This is yet another example of the illegal, cynical and barbaric acts perpetrated by the Russian armed forces in the context of their reckless and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, we call on the Russian military authorities to Ivan Fedorov immediately and to ensure that Ivan Fedorov health and safety is preserved. We urge the Russian authorities to fully respect the Geneva Conventions on combatants and non-combatant civilians and prisoners of war, as well as all relevant provisions of International Humanitarian Law.

2. Jason Potts:

   Trust in sending that person down below the water line to accomplish the mission, to repair a ship, you consider the fact that we send our divers down to replace 55,000-pound propellers on a submarine, and we send that submarine to sea to go out and support our combatant commanders on that one person's or two people's word that that ship is ready to go. That's an immense amount of trust.

3. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker:

   We need to have a responsible way that is legal and constitutional, but a way that we can make sure that if someone is an enemy combatant, or aligned with an enemy combatant, the United States and the people of this great country, we've got to have the tools we need to prevent another act from happening.

4. Diman Bayeez:

   I was very poor. I have schizophrenia and was just diagnosed with blood cancer, and my only daughter wasn't treating me well. I was borrowing money from people for the treatment. That was in June 2014, and she described her situation to a cab driver named Mahmoud in her home city of Kirkuk. He was ISIS and said if I joined, they would treat me well and pay me, she says. I said I would join on one condition : That they make me a suicide bomber and put me out of my misery. Mahmoud was killed fighting in Hawija, and two ISIS members found her number in his phone. She – along with her now ex-husband – were recruited. K.S. says she did not receive any formal training as a combatant, and did not pledge allegiance to ISIS, but admits that she allowed two militants to stay at her home – she now suspects that one was a spy for the Kurdish security forces. But when she was scheduled to put on the suicide vest, she got cold feet. She fled with the idea of seeking asylum in Europe, but the Kurds picked her up before she could leave. I told them I did all these bad things I didn't do because I wanted to be executed. I still wanted to die, K.S. says, saying that she attempted to kill herself in jail, too, with a kitchen knife. Now Iam thankful to God. I know I have committed no crime. Kurdish authorities beg to differ. According to the deputy manager of the correctional center, Zhino Azad, K.S. was deeply entrenched in ISIS, coordinating for their agents and being a guard at their female prisons – possibly filled with captured Yazidi sex slaves. Even her daughter, a lawyer, is terrified of her, Zhino Azad tells FoxNews.com. She is … a little psychotic. That's the type of people ISIS takes advantage of. K.S. does n’t mind prison at all. It is like heaven in this jail, she says. Here, she is safe from ISIS, is fed and receives medical treatment. I get to read the Koran all day and sleep, K.S. says with a bright smile. And I interpret dreams for the other women. A.H., a 35-year-old mother with a small tribal tattoo on the tip of her nose, also spoke to FoxNews.com. She was issued a life sentence, which was reduced to 20 years, then 15, because she has young children -- six of them who are between 5 and 16 years old. They are being looked after by the second of her husband's four wives. He is in jail now too, she says. At first, A.H. maintains that she was working at a civilian hospital that was controlled by ISIS, but that she never treated wounded fighters, but it does n’t take long for her to let her guard down, especially after the prison official with us begins wandering in and out of the room. I went to ISIS Diman Bayeez and said I would do anything, clean hospitals, if they gave me a salary – $ 260 a month, she says. So I was setting up IVs and injections for the fighters. While she admits to having sworn allegiance to the Caliphate, A.H. also claims she was a spy for Iraqi intelligence, and, fearful that ISIS members would find out, she fled to Kurdistan in early 2016. We have problems, especially with the new prisoners, radicalizing others, so we try to keep the terrorists separate. - Diman Bayeez, manager of the Women and Childrens Prison of Erbil She says all evidence of her spying was taken from her at an Iraqi Army checkpoint. Of course I regret [ helping ISIS ]. But my family was hungry. My husband was old, she pleads. I feel betrayed. They took my phone, my proof I was helping them. They all say they aren't guilty.

5. Jeff Davis:

   We've seen a steady demand signal from all of our geographic combatant commanders to have more of this capability.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Combatant
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Combatant
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Combatant
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combatant
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Combatant
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Combatant