PARTIZAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does partizan mean? 

• PARTIZAN (noun)
  The noun PARTIZAN has 2 senses:

1. an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

2. a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries

  Familiarity information: PARTIZAN used as a noun is rare.

• PARTIZAN (adjective)
  The adjective PARTIZAN has 1 sense:

1. devoted to a cause or party

  Familiarity information: PARTIZAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTIZAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

enthusiast; partisan; partizan

Hypernyms ("partizan" is a kind of...):

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter (a person who backs a politician or a team etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "partizan"):

addict; freak; junkie; junky; nut (someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction)

backslapper (someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality)

balletomane (a ballet enthusiast)

fanatic; fiend (a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause))

gadgeteer (a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets)

shutterbug (a photography enthusiast)

fan; rooter; sports fan (an enthusiastic devotee of sports)

Derivation:

partizan (devoted to a cause or party)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

partisan; partizan

Hypernyms ("partizan" is a kind of...):

pike (medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet)

• PARTIZAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Devoted to a cause or party

Synonyms:

partisan; partizan

Similar:

party-spirited (devoted to a political party)

tendencious; tendentious (having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one)

Derivation:

partizan (an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity)