warrior

[ wawr-ee-er, wawr-yer, wor-ee-er, wor-yer ]

noun

1. a person engaged or experienced in warfare; soldier.
2. a person who shows or has shown great vigor, courage, or aggressiveness, as in politics or athletics.

warrior

/ ˈwɒrɪə /

noun

1. 1. a person engaged in, experienced in, or devoted to war
   2. ( as modifier )

      a warrior nation

Other Words From

• warri·or·like adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of warrior¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English werreieor, from Old North French; equivalent to war ¹ + -or ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of warrior¹

C13: from Old Northern French werreieor, from werre war

Example Sentences

Anyone who believes that life is a battlefield full of individual warriors should go out into the meadows on a spring night.

From Nautilus

Lee herself has found skeletons of possible warrior women in ancient Mongolia, a nation just north of China.

From Science News For Students

This remains true if the one in green is a warrior or a lord.

From Popular-Science

Archaeology has uncovered evidence that in ancient societies, women could be warriors.

From Science News For Students

Skeletons show signs that some women in these communities were warriors.

From Science News For Students

But the proud stone lion that once stood atop the tomb, as Peristeri has often maintained, suggests a male occupant and a warrior.

From The Daily Beast

Along the way, she discovers the fearless warrior that her mother knew was inside her all along.

From The Daily Beast

Inhofe is not just a climate-change denier; he is a warrior for corporate-funded half-truths and outright lies.

From The Daily Beast

Partly this is tradition as old as the history of warrior Islam.

From The Daily Beast

For its part, the Wounded Warrior Project dismisses much of the criticism.

From The Daily Beast

He was a distinguished warrior under Francis I, mortally wounded at the battle of Marignan.

From Project Gutenberg

But in the end his health gave way, and the Emperor himself wrote to Prince Eugne telling him to send the old warrior home.

From Project Gutenberg

Its pages are filled with the purple gowns of kings and the scarlet trappings of the warrior.

From Project Gutenberg

Nicholson and John Lawrence were there; could they hold those warrior-tribes in subjection, or, better still, in leash?

From Project Gutenberg

The death of Harcla, the keenest and ablest warrior in141 England, did not remove the difficulties from Edward's path.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• champion
• fighter
• hero
• soldier