WARRIOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warrior mean? 

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

1. someone engaged in or experienced in warfare

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARRIOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone engaged in or experienced in warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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

brave (a North American Indian warrior)

centurion ((ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers)

Crusader (a warrior who engages in a holy war)

guerilla; guerrilla; insurgent; irregular (a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment)

samurai (a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy)

Instance hyponyms:

Goliath ((Old Testament) a giant Philistine warrior who was slain by David with a slingshot)

Derivation:

war (make or wage war)

 Context examples 

But this Spade-beard is a gallant warrior.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah! said they, what does the great warrior want here in the midst of peace?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This is a challenging, sometimes explosive aspect, where warrior Mars will directly confront Uranus, the planet of all things unexpected.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The little red warriors hung upon the words of the speaker, and when he had finished they burst into a roar of applause, waving their rude weapons in the air.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end—and what comes next!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Not tables, toilettes, wardrobes, or drawers, but on one side perhaps the remains of a broken lute, on the other a ponderous chest which no efforts can open, and over the fireplace the portrait of some handsome warrior, whose features will so incomprehensibly strike you, that you will not be able to withdraw your eyes from it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors’ faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A buzz of joy at the prospect of immediate action rose up from the group of warriors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars is the warrior planet, so in March you will go after your goals with a passion that will impress everyone in your path.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)