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Military vs Militant - What's the difference?

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Militant is a related term of military.



As adjectives the difference between military and militant

is that military is characteristic of members of the armed forces while militant is fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.

As nouns the difference between military and militant

is that military is armed forces while militant is a soldier, a combatant.

military

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
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  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
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  • Relating to war.
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  • Relating to armies or ground forces.

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    (en-noun)
  • Armed forces.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
  • (US, with the) U.S. armed forces in general, including the Marine Corps.

    • Related terms

    * militia * military intelligence * military insignia * military officer * military rank * military tribunal * military uniform * nonmilitary

    See also

    * martial * abbreviation: * army/Army * navy/Navy * air force/Air Force * marines/Marines * Merchant Marine * US National Guard * Coast Guard

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    militant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
  • * 2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 394:
    • The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy.
  • Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia militant) (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A soldier, a combatant.
  • An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
  • * 2008', '' , Wikinews:
    • Officials in Pakistan have confirmed that at least 250 schoolchildren between 12 and 18 years old and several teachers were taken hostage by at least seven militants inside a high school in Domail.
  • Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyite political view expressed in the newspaper Militant , or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics.

    • Derived terms

    * Militant Tendency * ultramilitant

    Related terms

    * military * militia