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s | militant |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective militant is

fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.

As a noun militant is

(obsolete) a soldier, a combatant.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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