warrior
[wawr-ee-er, wawr-yer, wor-ee-er, wor-yer]
- a person engaged or experienced in warfare; soldier.
- a person who shows or has shown great vigor, courage, or aggressiveness, as in politics or athletics.
Origin of warrior
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Contemporary Examples
But the proud stone lion that once stood atop the tomb, as Peristeri has often maintained, suggests a male occupant and a warrior.
Inhofe is not just a climate-change denier; he is a warrior for corporate-funded half-truths and outright lies.
Partly this is tradition as old as the history of warrior Islam.
Gus Connolly, a broad middle-aged man with a thick red beard, was working at the Games dressed as a fearsome Scottish warrior.
Born in 1829 near the Gila River in what is now Arizona, the legendary Indian warrior Geronimo was a Chiracahua Apache.
Historical Examples
Nor had I ever before seen a soldier who seemed to my boyish eyes so like what a warrior should be.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
Just then a warrior forced his way into the exasperated crowd.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
Not so; a warrior known to the Yengeese, and feared by the Maquas.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
The Manitou had need of such a warrior, and He has called him away.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
warrior
- a person engaged in, experienced in, or devoted to war
- (as modifier)a warrior nation
Word Origin
C13: from Old Northern French werreieor, from werre war
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Word Origin and History for warrior
n.
c.1300, from Old North French werreieor (Old French guerreor) "a warrior, one who wages war," from werreier "wage war," from werre (see war (n.)).
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