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Definition of Defender
1. Noun. A person who cares for persons or property.
Specialized synonyms: Admonisher, Monitor, Reminder, Bodyguard, Escort, Champion, Fighter, Hero, Paladin, Chaperon, Chaperone, Custodian, Keeper, Steward, Fire Fighter, Fire-eater, Firefighter, Fireman, Foster Parent, Foster-parent, Guard, Keeper, Law Officer, Lawman, Peace Officer, Patron Saint, Peacekeeper, Tribune, Watchdog
Generic synonyms: Preserver
Derivative terms: Defend, Defend, Defend, Guardianship, Guardianship, Protect, Protectorship, Shield
2. Noun. A fighter who holds out against attack.
Generic synonyms: Battler, Belligerent, Combatant, Fighter, Scrapper
Derivative terms: Withstand
Definition of Defender
1. n. One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.
Definition of Defender
1. Noun. Someone who defends people or property. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) A lawyer who represents defendants. ¹
3. Noun. A fighter who repels an attack. ¹
4. Noun. (sports) One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defender
1. one that defends [n -S] - See also: defends
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defender
Literary usage of Defender
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Justice and the Poor: A Study of the Present Denial of Justice to the Poor by Reginald Heber Smith (1919)
"§1 The term "public defender" is itself a source of confusion because its ...
The office of the first defender in Los Angeles was created by statute and ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"defender having asked what they were ? they al- lodged they did ... <1 shew no
murant; and thereupon the defender having some suspicion that they »ere ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"Here was an injury committed by the defender, who was perfectly aware that this
woman was the wife of the pursuer. But not satisfied with thus severely ..."
4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1897)
"No craft in the annals of yachting centers about itself such features of general
interest as the yacht defender. Perhaps the greatest series of races in ..."
5. Cases on the Law of Torts by Francis Hermann Bohlen (1915)
"The defender answered "that, as is usual in such circumstances, the pursuer and
defender, together with William Machray and Samuel Copland, the other two ..."
6. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"Mr. Webster, in that great contest of nullification, was on the side of President
Jackson, and the supreme defender of his great measure—the Proclamation of ..."
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