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monomachists

monomachists is the plural of monomachist.

Meaning of monomachist

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

Questions about monomachists

What is monomachists the plural of?
Monomachists is the plural of monomachist.

Words near monomachists in the dictionary

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

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