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monomachist

monomachist noun: one who fights in single combat; a duellist.

Noun

monomachist (plural monomachists)

  1. One who fights in single combat; a duellist.
    • These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into...1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236

Forms of monomachist

pluralmonomachists

Origin of monomachist

From monomachy or monomachia + -ist.

Questions about monomachist

What does monomachist mean?
Monomachist means one who fights in single combat; a duellist.
What part of speech is monomachist?
Monomachist is a noun.
What is the plural of monomachist?
The plural of monomachist is monomachists.

Words near monomachist in the dictionary

  1. Monom
  2. MonoMAC
  3. monomachia
  4. monomachias
  5. monomachies
  6. monomachist
  7. monomachists
  8. monomachy
  9. Monomak
  10. monomaleate
  11. monomaleates

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