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crusader
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun crusader has 2 senses
- crusader(n = noun.person) meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer - a disputant who advocates reform; Array is a kind of controversialist, disputant, eristic
- crusader(n = noun.person) Array - a warrior who engages in a holy war; "the Crusaders tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims" is a kind of warrior
has particulars: abolitionist, emancipationist, birth-control campaigner, birth-control reformer, chartist, civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker, demonstrator, protester, dry, prohibitionist, conservationist, environmentalist, feminist, libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist, flower child, hippie, hippy, hipster, freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel, activist, militant, non-resistant, passive resister, preservationist, utopian, anthony comstock, comstock, dix, dorothea dix, dorothea lynde dix, hus, huss, jan hus, john huss, owen, robert owen, girolamo savonarola, savonarola, francis everett townsend, townsend, john wilkes, wilkes
Derived form verb crusade1
Derived form verb crusade2
CIDE DICTIONARY
crusader, n.
One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages. [1913 Webster]
"Azure-eyed and golden-haired,
Forth the young crusaders fared." [1913 Webster]
Forth the young crusaders fared." [1913 Webster]
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