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disputant

Syllables: dis·pu·tantUK/dɪˈspjuːtənt/

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British/dɪˈspjʉwtənt/

disputant noun: a participant in a dispute.

Noun

disputant (plural disputants)

  1. A participant in a dispute.
    • One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had...1893, Henry James, Collaboration https://web.archive.org/web/20061013012124/http://www.henryjames.org.uk/collab/CLtext.htm

Adjective

disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)

  1. Disputing; engaged in controversy.
    • [...] [T]here was found / Among the graveſt Rabbies diſputant / On points and queſtions fitting Moſes Chair, / Teaching not taught; [...]1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 89, lines 217–220

disputant meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Sanskrit

disputant in Tamil

வாதி, வழக்காளி, வழக்காடுபவன், குதர்க்கி, வாதிடும், வழ்க்காடும்

disputant in Kannada

ವಾದಿ

disputant in Sanskrit

disputant
विपक्ष vipakṣa, वादिन् vādín

Forms of disputant

Noun
pluraldisputants
Adjective
comparativemore disputant
superlativemost disputant

Origin of disputant

From dispute + -ant.

Words formed from disputant

Questions about disputant

What does disputant mean?
Disputant means a participant in a dispute.
What is disputant in Tamil?
Disputant in Tamil is வாதி, வழக்காளி, வழக்காடுபவன். See Disputant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is disputant?
Disputant can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce disputant?
Disputant is pronounced /dɪˈspjuːtənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of disputant?
The plural of disputant is disputants.

Words near disputant in the dictionary

  1. disputability
  2. disputable
  3. disputableness
  4. disputably
  5. disputacity
  6. disputant
  7. disputants
  8. disputation
  9. disputational
  10. disputationism
  11. disputations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disputant (page history and authors); disputant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disputant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वादिन् (Sanskrit) (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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