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stalwarts

stalwarts is the plural of stalwart.

Meaning of stalwart

Noun

stalwart (plural stalwarts)

  1. One who has a strong build.
  2. One who firmly supports a cause.
    • Too much authority, blind authority, mere authority, whether that of the Prince or the priest, of the Raja or the Nabob, of the oligarch or the official, of the wealty and the prosperous is the bane of Indian life, yet these stalwarts of reform always take shelter behind big names.1920?, [Lala] Lajpat Rai, “A Fight for Crumbs”, in The Call to Young India, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India: S. Ganesan & Co., →OCLC, pages 68–69
  3. One who is dependable.
    • The party's staunchest stalwarts constitute the President's redoubtable bulwark against the latter bribery accusations.

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Noun capitalized: Stalwarts

Stalwarts

  1. (plural) plural of Stalwart

Questions about stalwarts

What is stalwarts the plural of?
Stalwarts is the plural of stalwart.
What part of speech is stalwarts?
Stalwarts is a noun.

Words near stalwarts in the dictionary

  1. stalwartized
  2. stalwartizes
  3. stalwartizing
  4. stalwartly
  5. stalwartness
  6. stalwarts
  7. stalworth
  8. stalworthly
  9. stalworthness
  10. stalworths
  11. Stalybridge

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