Word Meanings - TRAITOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers

Additional info about word: TRAITOR

L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his 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. See Treason. O passing traitor, perjured and unjust! Shak. 2. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer. "This false traitor death." Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRAITOR)

• Deserter
• Renegade
• run
• away
• recanter
• abjurer
• apostate
• traitor
• forsaker
• Insurgent
• Malcontent
• rebel
• mutineer
• rioter
• Rebel
• Revolter
• insurgent
• Apostate
• deserter
• heretic
• betrayer
• backslider
• vagabond
• turncoat
• recreant

Related words: (words related to TRAITOR)

• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• REBELLOW
  To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• TRAITOR
  L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
• TRAITORY
  Treachery. Chaucer.
• APOSTATE
  One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
• TURNCOAT
  One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan.
• REBEL
  again + bellare to make war, fr. bellum war. See Bellicose, and cf. 1. To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion. The murmur and the churl's rebelling. Chaucer. Ye have
• HERETICATE
  To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• RECREANT
  One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch. Blackstone. You are all recreants and dastards! Shak.
• REBELLION
  Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes
• RIOTER
  One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3. (more info) 1. One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer. Chaucer.
• HERETIC
  One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church." Addis & Arnold. Syn. -- Heretic, Schismatic,
• VAGABONDISM
  Vagabondage.
• MALCONTENTED
  Malcontent. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
• TRAITORLY
  Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. "Traitorly rascals." Shak.
• VAGABONDIZE
  To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
• ABJURER
  One who abjures.
• REBELDOM
  A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct o Thackeray.
• CEREBELLAR; CEREBELLOUS
  Pertaining to the cerebellum.
• CEREBEL
  The cerebellum. Derham.
• ARCHTRAITOR
  A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.