militants
- 1Plural of militant.
Government forces clashed with militants near the northern border.
A small group of militants claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Note
A regular plural, and only ever a noun. The adjective militant, as in a militant tone, never takes an -s. The old meaning of soldiers or combatants is now obsolete. Today the word names entrenched or aggressive adherents of a cause, often members of an ideological faction. In one specific use it means supporters of the Trotskyist politics of the newspaper Militant.
militants is a form of militant
militant, noun: Someone who supports a cause aggressively or refuses to change their position, especially a member of an ideological group. Full entry
- Forms
- militantmilitants plural
- Spelling
- militant → militants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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