Warrior vs Spartan - What's the difference?
warrior | spartan |
A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
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(lb) A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.
Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial.
Resolute in the face of danger or adversity.
Lacking in decoration and luxury.
As nouns the difference between warrior and spartan
is that warrior is a person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant while spartan is a red apple cultivar from british columbia, canada.As a proper noun spartan is
a citizen of sparta.As an adjective spartan is
of or relating to sparta or its citizens.warrior
English
Alternative forms
* warriour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia warrior)- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior ; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
Derived terms
* bloody warrior * warriorhoodReferences
* *spartan
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I went on the retreat to the monastery, thinking I would be sleeping in a spartan cell, only to discover a simple but comfortable bedroom.
- The spartan legionaries vowed to fight to the death.
- After ten years as a fashion designer in the rough-and-tumble Garment District, Eloise left New York for the spartan but serene life of a farmer's wife.