defenders
- 1Plural of defender.
The castle's defenders repelled wave after wave of attackers.
Human rights defenders gathered outside the courthouse in protest.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of its singular, so context does the sorting. On a pitch, the defenders are the players charged with keeping the other side from scoring. On a castle wall, they are fighters repelling an attack. Legal usage needs care: the word occasionally names lawyers who represent defendants, but it can also mean the defendants in a civil action themselves. The plural possessive is written defenders'.
defenders is a form of defender
defender, noun: A person who protects people or property from harm or attack. Full entry
- Forms
- defenderdefenders plural
- Spelling
- defender → defenders: add -s
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