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assailants

assailants is the plural of assailant.

Meaning of assailant

Noun

assailant (plural assailants)

  1. Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.
    • I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire,
      And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
      The like do you; so shall we pass along,
      And never stir assailants.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    Synonyms:
    attacker
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A hostile critic or opponent.
    • […] the assailants of the quill have their honour as much at heart as the assailants of the sword.1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 3, p. 41

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Questions about assailants

What is assailants the plural of?
Assailants is the plural of assailant.

Words near assailants in the dictionary

  1. assail
  2. assailability
  3. assailable
  4. assailableness
  5. assailant
  6. assailants
  7. assaile
  8. assailed
  9. assailer
  10. assailers
  11. assailes

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