A defender or advocate of a noble cause. (A defender of faith).
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Any of the twelve Companions of the court of Emperor Charlemagne.
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Noun
Singular:
paladin
Plural:
paladins
Origin of paladin
French from Italian paladinofrom Late Latin palātīnuspalatinepalatine1
From
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Italianpaladino, from Late Latin palatinus, "palace officer". Derived from the "Auxilia Palatina." The royal guards of the later Roman Empire who were named after the Palatine hill in Rome, Italy. From which the word Paladin and Palace is derived.
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Paladin Sentence Examples
The Scottish centre fought like Paladin's, and James, breaking out in their front, hewed his way to within a lance's length of Surrey, as that leader himself avers.
An aged paladin, somewhat uxorious and always penniless, he was a typical knight errant, whose wanderings led him all over Europe, and planted him successively on the thrones of Jerusalem and Constantinople.
After these fools bargains the paladin set out for Naples in 1494.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that great paladin for justice, took up Slater's case and the arguments continued for nineteen years.
Typically, I read the second in the series - Paladin of Souls - first.