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

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapperadjective

    someone who fights (or is fighting)

  2. combatantadjective

    engaging in or ready for combat

Wiktionary

  1. combatantnoun

    An armed fighter.

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Combatantnoun

    Etymology: combattant, French.

    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.

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

    Men become combatants for those opinions. John Locke.

Wikipedia

  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."

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  1. Combatantadjective

    contending; disposed to contend

  2. Combatantnoun

    one who engages in combat

  3. Etymology: [F. combattant.]

Wikidata

  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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Numerology

  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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Joseph Dunford:

    That is one of the more important tasks we face, is to prioritize and allocate resources in accordance with the strategy, and... if you look at what the combatant commanders would identity as their requirements, our inventory falls short of meeting all of what the combatant commanders would want to have, so the art for us is to have enough of our forces forward to demonstrate commitment, assure our allies, to demonstrate the ability to respond -- which enhances deterrence -- and then have the inherent flexibility in the force to get the right amount of forces in the right place, at the right time in the event deterrence fails.

  4. Tod Wolters:

    Combatant commanders, specifically Tod Wolters and Phil Davidson from INDOPACOM, have both expressed to the Secretary the need to accelerate the flow of vaccines mostly for the dependents of our military members in Europe and for Phil Davidson in the Pacific, and up to this point we've probably been a little bit off balance.

  5. Mick Mulroy:

    Targeting generals is fully lawful, targeting non-combatant civilians is not, Mulroy said. If Russian generals don't want to be targeted, they should withdraw their forces and return to Russia.

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