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fifth columnists

fifth columnists is the plural of fifth columnist.

Meaning of fifth columnist

Noun

fifth columnist (plural fifth columnists)

  1. someone who belongs to a group that secretly undermines another organization
    • In both cases audiences can listen to the characters and actually hear them simply because both characters are not who they seem to be; they are fifth column-ists, interlopers in the battlefield of sexual politics. If a homosexual character or a real woman gave the speeches that Andrews and Hoffman...1983 February 12, Michael Bronski, “Tootsie and the Gender Benders”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 14

Questions about fifth columnists

What is fifth columnists the plural of?
Fifth columnists is the plural of fifth columnist.

Words near fifth columnists in the dictionary

  1. Fifth Amendment
  2. fifth base
  3. fifth column
  4. fifth columnism
  5. fifth columnist
  6. fifth columnists
  7. fifth columns
  8. fifth cousin
  9. fifth cousins
  10. fifth cranial nerve
  11. fifth cranial nerves

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