warrior
Syllables: war·ri·orUK/ˈwɒɹi.ə//ˈwɔɹi.ɚ/
warrior noun: a person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
Noun
warrior (plural warriors)
- A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
- [Link:] Gee, it sure is boring around here.
[King Harkinian:] My boy, this peace is what all true warriors strive for.1993 October 10, Animation Magic, Link: The Faces of Evil, Philips Interactive Media, scene: Intro
- A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.
- Anything exceptionally tough, stubborn, or that is hard to conquer or overcome.
- It was an old warrior of a hole about sixty feet deep, that had broken the hearts of numerous gangs of well-sinkers, all of whom abandoned it[.]1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 6
Proper noun capitalized: Warrior
Warrior (plural Warriors)
- A surname.
warrior meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
warrior in Hindi
- person actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare
- लड़ाका laṛākā, योद्धा yoddhā, जंगजू jaṅgjū
warrior in Tamil
- போர் வீரன், போர்வீரர், மாவீரன், மாவீரர்
warrior in Marathi
- warrior, hero; a valiant man
- शूर śūr
warrior in Urdu
- person actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare
- جَن٘گْجُو jaṅgjū
More languagesFewer languages
- warrior in Bengali
- যোদ্ধা jōddha
- warrior in Telugu
- జోదు jōdu
- warrior in Malayalam
- യോദ്ധാവ് yōddhāvŭ
- warrior in Kannada
- ಸಿಪಾಯಿ, ಸೇನಾನಿ, ಸೈನಿಕ, ಯೋಧ
- warrior in Punjabi
- ਜੋਧ jodh, پٹھان paṭhāṇ, ਪਠਾਣ paṭhāṇ
- warrior in Gujarati
- લડવૈયો laḍvaiyo
- warrior in Odia
- ବୀର bira, ପଠାଣ paṭhāṇa
- warrior in Sanskrit
- योद्धृ yoddhṛ
- warrior in Nepali
- योद्धा
- warrior in Pashto
- جنګي jangí
- warrior in Tagalog
- mandirigma
- warrior in Arabic
- مُحَارِب muḥārib, مُقَاتِل muqātil, مُجَاهِد mujāhid
- warrior in Malay
- pahlawan, pejuang, kesatria
- warrior in Indonesian
- pendekar
- warrior in Thai
- นักรบ nák-róp
- warrior in Vietnamese
- chiến sĩ, chiến binh, võ sĩ
- warrior in Myanmar
- သူရဲ surai:
Examples of warrior in a sentence
- The sheer number of warriors the enemy attacked with was unfathomable.
- The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.
- The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.
Forms of warrior
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | warriors |
| alternative form (obsolete) | warriour |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Warriors |
Origin of warrior
From Middle English werreour, from Anglo-Norman werreur, Old French guerroiier (“fighter, combattant”), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werʀu (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Displaced earlier Old English cempa and many others.
Words formed from warrior
- antiwarrior
- Black Warrior
- bloody warrior
- bloody-warrior
- class warrior
- cold warrior
- corridor warrior
- culture warrior
- cyberwarrior
- eco-warrior
- edit warrior
- Indian warrior
- keyboard warrior
- nonwarrior
- people's warrior
- road warrior
- roadwarrior
- social justice warrior
- social-justice warrior
- status quo warrior
- urban warrior
- warrior ant
- warrioress
- warriorhood
- warriorism
- warriorless
- warriorlike
- warriorness
- warriorship
- warrior wasp
- weekend warrior
- Wi-Fi warrior
- wolf warrior
- workout warrior
Phrases with warrior
Questions about warrior
- What does warrior mean?
- Warrior means a person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
- What is warrior in Hindi?
- Warrior in Hindi is लड़ाका (laṛākā), योद्धा (yoddhā), जंगजू (jaṅgjū). See Warrior meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is warrior?
- Warrior can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce warrior?
- Warrior is pronounced /ˈwɒɹi.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of warrior?
- The plural of warrior is warriors.
Words near warrior in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: warrior (page history and authors); Warrior (page history and authors); warrior (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); शूर (Marathi) (page history and authors); జోదు (Telugu) (page history and authors); warrior (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); پٹھان (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ପଠାଣ (Odia) (page history and authors); warrior (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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