English > traitor: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who betrays his country by committing treason. |
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| Synonym | treasonist |
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| Instances | Arnold, Benedict Arnold | United States general and traitor in the American Revolution |
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| Narrower | collaborator, collaborationist, quisling | someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force |
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| fifth columnist, saboteur | A member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader |
| traitress | female traitor / traitor |
| Broader | criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime |
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| Spanish | traidora, traidor, treasonist |
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| Catalan | traïdor, treasonist |
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| Adjectives | traitorous | having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor / traitor |
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