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Trait vs Traitor - What's the difference?

trait | traitor |

As nouns the difference between trait and traitor

is that trait is an identifying characteristic, habit or trend while traitor is one who violates his allegiance and betrays his/her country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country.

As a verb traitor is

to act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.

As an adjective traitor is

traitorous.

trait

English

(wikipedia trait)

Noun

(en noun)
  • an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
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  • The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?
  • (computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, an uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * character trait

    Anagrams

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    traitor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * traitour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who violates his allegiance and betrays his/her country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country.
  • Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust.
  • Synonyms

    *(one who betrays a confidence or trust) betrayer, fink

    See also

    * Benedict Arnold * Quisling * Judas

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • traitorous
  • (Spenser)
    (Alexander Pope)