traitor Definition
trai·tor (trāt′ər)
noun
a person who betrays his or her country, cause, friends, etc.; one guilty of treason or treachery
Etymology: ME traitour < OFr traitor < L traditor, one who betrays < traditus, pp. of tradere, to hand over, betray: see treason
traitor Synonyms
traitor
n.
traitor Usage Examples
Possessives
- gate: Traitor's Gate is a river entrance, where the heads of traitors were put on spikes.
- death: Punishment was extreme and an act of parliament in 1585 demanded a traitor's death for priests caught.
Converse of object
- declare: When news of this reached England he was declared traitor and all his properties in Britain were confiscated.
- turn: Of course, I can't take all the credit, we had some help: one of his crew turned traitor.
- brand: He then argued with the King and was branded a traitor.
- discuss: It looked a bit like the tower of london, so we discussed traitors and elizabeth the first in a low key way.
- become: He became a traitor to Christ by his own choice.
Adjective modifier
- potential: He was looked on as a potential traitor and national security risk.
- real: However, Worf learns that the real traitor was the head of the powerful Duras clan.
- national: Four national traitors were killed during special target operations, said the Chechen Command spokesman.
- other: The other traitors, who were relieved to have escaped detection, also were thus motivated to fight harder.
- social: The Italian Socialist Party however repudiated these social traitors.
- local: The puppets allege that there have been no victims among invaders and local traitors in the blast.
Modifies a noun
- sneer: Within its shade we'll live and die, Tho cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.
- Judas: Are you now a doubting Thomas about the traitor Judas?
- technology: Terminator and Traitor technologies are not limited to a single patent, nor is the research confined to one or two companies.
Noun used with modifier
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