Word Meanings - DEFENDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFENDER)

• Advocate
• Pleader
• counsellor
• upholder
• propagator
• promoter
• supporter
• countenancer
• defender
• maintainer
• Champion
• Hero
• warrior
• combatant
• vindicator
• challenger
• protector

Related words: (words related to DEFENDER)

• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• WARRIORESS
  A female warrior. Spenser.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• PLEADER
  One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• DEFENDER
  One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.
• PROMOTER
  1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. 2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation,
• VINDICATOR
  One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke.
• COMBATANT
  Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.
• MAINTAINER
  One who maintains.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• PROPAGATOR
  One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.
• PROTECTORSHIP
  , The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.
• CHALLENGER
  One who challenges.
• VINDICATORY
  1. Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative. 2. Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory. The afflictions of Job were no vindicatory punishments to take vengeance of his sins. Abp. Bramhall.
• WARRIOR
  A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton. Warrior ant , a reddish ant native of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to
• PROTECTOR
  One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent. Is it concluded he shall be protector ! Shak. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.
• CHAMPIONSHIP
  State of being champion; leadership; supremancy.
• UPHOLDER
  1. A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. 2. An undertaker, or provider for funerals. The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. Gay. 3. An upholsterer. 4. One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.
• PROTECTORAL
  Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.
• REPLEADER
  A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone.
• DISCOUNTENANCER
  One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon.
• INTERPLEADER
  A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they
• NONCOMBATANT
  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;
• SUBADVOCATE
  An under or subordinate advocate.