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defenser

defenser is the obsolete form of defender.

Meaning of defender

Noun

defender (plural defenders)

  1. Someone who defends people or property.
  2. One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.
  3. A fighter who seeks to repel an attack.
  4. (rare) A lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK).
    • There was another protection to which she was intitled by that law, namely, a defender; but she had none.1822, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, page 729
  5. (Scots law) A defendant in a civil action.

Forms of defenser

pluraldefensers

Origin of defenser

Compare French défenseur, Latin defensor. Compare defensor.

Questions about defenser

What is defenser the obsolete form of?
Defenser is the obsolete form of defender.

Words near defenser in the dictionary

  1. defenseless
  2. defenselessly
  3. defenselessness
  4. defenseman
  5. defensemen
  6. defenser
  7. defensers
  8. defenses
  9. defenses in depth
  10. defensibilities
  11. defensibility

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defenser (page history and authors); defender (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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