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Plural of combatant

regular plural

The plural of combatant is combatants.

Forms of combatant

Singularcombatant /ˈkɒm.bə.tənt/
Pluralcombatants
Countablecountable

Combatants in a sentence

  • Gladiators were combatants who fought to the death to entertain the public.
  • As Brittany Hugoboom put it in an op–ed for the rightwing outlet Quillette: “Conservatives will never win if they imagine themselves as combatants atop defensive battlements, hurling abuse on the mass media.2025 April 24, Anna Silman, “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican”, in...
  • The two combatants have been stuck in stalemate-ville for a very long time.From the entry -ville
  • The combatants spent the night in separate cells.From the entry cell
  • Metallic fangs are widely used by avis combatants, many of them often equipped with spears under their wings.2017, Daniel A. Liut, Reality: The Struggle for Sternessence, BQB Publishing, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry aviarian

Meaning of combatant

  1. noun A person engaged in combat, often armed.
  2. adjective Contending; disposed to contend.
  3. adjective Involving combat.

Full definition of combatant

Questions about the plural of combatant

What is the plural of combatant?
The plural of combatant is combatants.
Is combatant countable?
Combatant is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: combatant (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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