avenger

American  

[uh-ven-jer] / əˈvɛn dʒər /

noun

1. a person who takes revenge for an offense.

   They feel that by engaging in terrorism they become the avengers of a great wrong done to their people.

2. a person who takes revenge on behalf of someone else.

   In the film, Zorro sees himself as the avenger of the innocent.

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Etymology

Origin of avenger

aveng(e) ( def. ) + -er ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Later, its soft intoning of “The world’s avenger is no more” embodied the mourning and loss of hope after the death of Hercules.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Constructed out of Japan’s postwar atomic-bomb trauma, the King of the Monsters has proven a remarkably malleable character, playing environmental protector or atomic avenger with equal aplomb.

From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023

McCall — an enigmatic avenger played by Denzel Washington — likes tea, but he’s fine with the coffee that a beautiful server brings him with a smile.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2023

Hal Prince, in his original 1979 production, made Sweeney an avenger of Victorian era industrialization.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2023

In attendance upon him was Anteros, said sometimes to be the avenger of slighted love, sometimes the one who opposes love; also Himeros or Longing, and Hymen, the God of the Wedding Feast.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton