noun
Meaning 1
A fighter or participant in the medieval Crusades.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Examples
- the crusaders of the Middle Ages
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
crusader
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /kɹuːˈseɪdə/
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General-American: /kɹuˈseɪdɚ/
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rhymes with -eɪdə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 2
A person engaged in a crusade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An American, especially a soldier or leader who wages war against Islamist militants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
Topics: Islam, government, lifestyle, politics, religion
Examples
- 1998, Osama Bin Ladenhttps://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, which has exceeded 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A Westerner; a Christian, especially of European descent or a missionary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, slur
Topics: Islam, government, lifestyle, politics, religion
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
(either attributively or in the plural) The United States and its Western allies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
Topics: Islam, government, lifestyle, politics, religion
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 6
a warrior who engages in a holy war
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the Crusaders tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: warrior
noun
Meaning 7
a disputant who advocates reform
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reformer, reformist, social reformer, meliorist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disputant, controversialist, eristic
Narrower terms: abolitionist, emancipationist, birth-control campaigner, birth-control reformer, Chartist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker, civil rights activist, demonstrator, protester, dry, prohibitionist, environmentalist, conservationist, feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber, hippie, hippy, hipster, flower child, insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom fighter, rebel, militant, activist, non-resistant, passive resister, preservationist, Utopian, Comstock, Anthony Comstock, Dix, Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Huss, John Huss, Hus, Jan Hus, Owen, Robert Owen, Savonarola, Girolamo Savonarola, Townsend, Francis Everett Townsend, Wilkes, John Wilkes
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English crusade Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English crusader From crusade + -er.
Across languages
Translations
78 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: kruisvaarder — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Arabic: صليبي (salibi) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Armenian: խաչակիր (xačʻakir) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Old Armenian: խաչընկալ (xačʻənkal) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Old Armenian: խաչազգեստ (xačʻazgest) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Azerbaijani: xaçlı — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Azerbaijani: səlibçi — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Belarusian: крыжак (kryžak) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Bulgarian: кръстоно́сец (krǎstonósec) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Catalan: croat — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Chinese Mandarin: 十字軍 /十字军 (shízìjūn) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Chinese Mandarin: 十字軍戰士 /十字军战士 (shízìjūn zhànshì) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Czech: křižák — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Danish: korsfarer — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Danish: korsridder — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Dutch: kruisvaarder — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Dutch: kruisridder — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Esperanto: krucmilitisto — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Estonian: ristirüütel — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Estonian: ristisõdalane — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Estonian: ristisõdija — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Finnish: ristiretkeläinen — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Finnish: ristiretkeilijä — fighter in the medieval crusades
- French: croisé — fighter in the medieval crusades
- West-Frisian: krúsfarder — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Galician: cruzado — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Georgian: ჯვაროსანი (ǯvarosani) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- German: Kreuzfahrer — fighter in the medieval crusades
- German: Kreuzritter — fighter in the medieval crusades
- German: Kreuzzügler — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Greek: σταυροφόρος (stavrofóros) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Ancient Greek: σταυροφόρος (staurophóros) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Hebrew: צַלְבָּן (tsalbán) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Hungarian: keresztes — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Hungarian: kereszteslovag — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Icelandic: krossfari — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Indonesian: salibi — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Indonesian: tentara salib — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Irish: crosáidí — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Italian: crociato — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Japanese: 十字軍 (jūjigun) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Japanese: 十字軍騎士 (jūjigun kishi) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Kazakh: кірескер (kıresker) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Latin: crucesignatus — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Latin: crucifer — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Latvian: krustnesis — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Lithuanian: kryžiuotis — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Macedonian: крстоносец (krstonosec) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Malay: salibi — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Maltese: kruċjat — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Norwegian Bokmål: korsfarer — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Occitan: crosat — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Polish: krzyżowiec — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Portuguese: cruzado — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Romanian: cruciat — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Russian: крестоно́сец (krestonósec) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Serbo-Croatian: križar — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Slovak: križiak — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Slovene: križar — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Spanish: cruzado — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Swedish: korsfarare — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Swedish: korsriddare — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Tibetan: སེར་དམག་འགྱེད་མི (ser dmag 'gyed mi) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Tibetan: ཚོས་ཀྱི་གཡུལ་འགྱེད་མི (tshos kyi g.yul 'gyed mi) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Turkish: haçlılar — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Ukrainian: хрестоносець (xrestonosecʹ) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Urdu: صلیبی (salībī) — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Vietnamese: quân thập tự — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Welsh: croesgadwr — fighter in the medieval crusades
- Afrikaans: kruisvaarder — person engaged in a figurative crusade
- Catalan: croat — person engaged in a figurative crusade
- Chinese Mandarin: 鬥士 /斗士 (dòushì) — person engaged in a figurative crusade
- Chinese Mandarin: 志士 (zhìshì) — person engaged in a figurative crusade
- Greek: σταυροφόρος (stavrofóros) — person engaged in a figurative crusade
- Irish: agóideoir — person engaged in a figurative crusade
- Norwegian Bokmål: korsfarer — person engaged in a figurative crusade
- Turkish: mücahit — person engaged in a figurative crusade
- Turkish: alperen — person engaged in a figurative crusade
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