TREASONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does treasonist mean? 

• TREASONIST (noun)
  The noun TREASONIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who betrays his country by committing treason

  Familiarity information: TREASONIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREASONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who betrays his country by committing treason

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

traitor; treasonist

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

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

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

collaborationist; collaborator; quisling (someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force)

fifth columnist; saboteur (a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader)

traitress (female traitor)

Instance hyponyms:

Arnold; Benedict Arnold (United States general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801))

Derivation:

treason (an act of deliberate betrayal)

treason (a crime that undermines the offender's government)

treason (disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior)