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noncombatant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun noncombatant has 1 sense
- noncombatant(n = noun.person) - a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon); is a kind of man, military man, military personnel, serviceman
Derived form adjective noncombatant2
Adjective noncombatant has 2 senses
CIDE DICTIONARY
noncombatant, n.
- Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy. [1913 Webster]
- A person not attached to a military unit, or not participating in the military activities of a war; a civilian; as, the bomb killed twenty noncombatants. [PJC]
THESAURUS
noncombatant
citizen, civilian, conciliatory, dovish, irenic, nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, nonmilitant, nonresistant, nonresister, nonviolent, pacific, pacifist, pacifistic, peace-loving, peaceable, unbellicose, uncontentious, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary
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