English > treasonist: 1 sense > noun 1, person Meaning | someone who betrays his country by committing treason. |
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Synonym | traitor |
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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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Nouns | treason | a crime that undermines the offender's government |
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treason | an act of deliberate betrayal |
treason | disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior |