Word.ws English Dictionary

enemy combatants

enemy combatants is the plural of enemy combatant.

Meaning of enemy combatant

Noun

enemy combatant (plural enemy combatants)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see enemy, combatant.
    Synonyms:
    EC
  2. (US) Any person in an armed conflict who may be properly detained under the laws and customs of war.

Questions about enemy combatants

What is enemy combatants the plural of?
Enemy combatants is the plural of enemy combatant.

Words near enemy combatants in the dictionary

  1. enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
  2. enemies-to-lovers
  3. enemy
  4. enemy action
  5. enemy combatant
  6. enemy combatants
  7. enemy image
  8. enemy images
  9. enemy line
  10. enemy lines
  11. enemy of the people

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: enemy combatants (page history and authors); enemy combatant (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “enemy combatants.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/enemy_combatants. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.