Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who betrays one's country, a cause, or a trust, especially one who commits treason.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one who is guilty of treason. See treason.
- n. One who betrays any trust; a person guilty of perfidy or treachery; one who violates confidence reposed in him.
- n. Synonyms Rebel, etc. See insurgent.
- Of or pertaining to a traitor; traitorous.
- To act the traitor toward; betray.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
- v. To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
- adj. traitorous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
- adj. rare Traitorous.
- v. obsolete To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who says one thing and does another
- n. someone who betrays his country by committing treason
Etymologies
- From Old French traïtor (French: traître), from Latin traditor. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin trāditor, from trāditus, past participle of trādere, to betray; see tradition. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For the traitor appears not a traitor� “He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Sometimes, if this became too repetitive, the term traitor would be substituted with the term unpatriotic to describe anyone who dared question anything or who dared to express dissenting views.”
“I gave the legal definition of the term traitor, and all the elements involved.”
“The fact of the matter is, devaluing the currency and then accusing anyone who actually reacts to the devaluing by raising prices as a traitor is a common enough (historically) thing for any government of any ideology to do, and it rarely ends well.”
“The only logical argument that can be made that Bush might not be a traitor is the rather technical argument that, since CONGRESS HAS NEVER DECLARED WAR ON CHINA OR ON AL QAEDA, Bush cannot be a traitor since there is “no enemy” to be giving aid and comfort to.”
“But calling Bush a traitor is a pretty good start too.”
“To me a traitor is a political party that would fund and train alqueda – and who might that party be?”
“There was what they called a traitor on the New York, the Yankee's flagship.”
“Mr. Jarniman, I hear, thinks it what he calls a traitor in the camp.”
“One group shouted the word "traitor" at Papandreou last week.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘traitor’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
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Dramatic Nouns
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
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supplementary
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Names that nobody loves to be called, much to my chagrin.
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Friend or Foe
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Word_Art prompts
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it is not truth that matters, but vic...
every kind of liar.
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