SABOTEUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saboteur mean? 

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

1. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

2. a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

  Familiarity information: SABOTEUR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SABOTEUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker

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

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)

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

sleeper (a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fifth columnist; saboteur

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

traitor; treasonist (someone who betrays his country by committing treason)

Holonyms ("saboteur" is a member of...):

fifth column; Trojan horse (a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst)