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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
  2. n. A member of an organized body of fighters who attack or harass an enemy, especially within occupied territory; a guerrilla.
  3. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a partisan or partisans.
  4. adj. Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.
  5. n. A weapon having a blade with lateral projections mounted on the end of a long shaft, used chiefly in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. See partizan, partizan.

Wiktionary

  1. n. historical A spear with a triangular, double-edged blade.
  2. n. obsolete A soldier armed with such a weapon.
  3. n. An adherent to a party or faction.
  4. n. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
  5. n. A guerilla fighter; a member of detached light troops acting behind enemy lines.
  6. n. The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
  7. adj. Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops: as, a partisan officer or corps.
  8. adj. Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
  9. adj. Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.
  2. n. The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
  3. n. Any member of such a corps.
  4. adj. Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party.
  5. adj. (Mil.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command.
  6. n. A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries
  2. n. an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity
  3. adj. devoted to a cause or party
  4. n. a fervent and even militant proponent of something

Etymologies

  1. From French partisan, from Italian partigiano ("defender of a party"), from parte ("part"). English from the mid-16th century. The sense of "guerilla fighter" is from c. 1690. The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century, in the political sense since 1842. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, from Old Italian dialectal partisano, variant of Old Italian partigiano, from parte, part, from Latin pars, part-; see part.French partizane, from Italian dialectal *(arma) partisana, partisan (weapon), feminine sing. of partisano, supporter; see partisan1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. staff

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  1. tendentious
  1. tendencious
  1. party-spirited

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  1. pike

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  1. political
  2. adherent
  3. supporter
  1. democratic
  2. sectarian
  3. admirer
  1. nationalist
  2. patriot
  3. advocate
  1. racial
  2. opponent
  3. patriotic
  1. parliamentary
  2. petty
  3. defender

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. artisan
  1. nonpartisan

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. partizan
  2. partisanship
  3. jingoistic
  4. Jacobite
  5. factionary
  6. machine
  7. indoctrinate
  1. dissension
  2. knight
  3. Carlist
  4. chartist
  5. fire-eater
  6. pamphleteer
  7. sectarian
  1. tendentious
  2. partisan
  3. adherent
  4. Welles
  5. Cannon
  6. politics
  7. boil
  1. butternut
  2. Washington
  3. political
  4. politician
  5. miquelet
  6. mossback
  7. nonpartisan
  1. partisan ranger
  2. party man
  3. party
  4. sectarianism
  5. sidesman
  6. slang-whanger
  7. spoilsman
  1. terrorist
  2. zealot
  3. gerrymander

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  • kingparton I wrote as an enthusiast and a partisan—and with, it now seems to me, a certain naiveté.

    Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays Nov 18, 2011

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