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Combatant vs Combat - What's the difference?

combatant | combat |

As nouns the difference between combatant and combat

is that combatant is an armed fighter while combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.

As an adjective combatant

is contending; disposed to contend.

As a verb combat is

to fight with; to struggle for victory against.

combatant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An armed fighter.
    • Gladiators were combatants who fought to the death to entertain the public.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Contending; disposed to contend.
    • (Ben Jonson)
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    combat

    English

    (wikipedia combat)

    Noun

  • A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
  • *
  • *:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat .}}

    Derived terms

    * combat pay

    Verb

  • To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
  • * Milton
    • To combat with a blind man I disdain.

    Anagrams

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