ENDURER Synonyms

• someone who has won first place in a competition

• someone who fights for a cause

• a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• holding first place in a contest

• protect or fight for as a champion

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• engaging in or ready for combat

• a person distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength

• Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

• the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem

• (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

• someone who fights for a cause

• (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• a holding device

• a person who holds something

• the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it

• one who suffers for the sake of principle

• one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion

• kill as a martyr

• torture and torment like a martyr

• someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion

• someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take

• someone who offers opposition

• an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army

• a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony

• serve as a soldier in the military

• a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)

• having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships

• dependable

• used especially of persons

• an organism (person or animal) that stands

• a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort

• a person suffering from an illness

• one who suffers for the sake of principle

• one who lives through affliction

• one who outlives another

• an animal that survives in spite of adversity

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem

• a soldier in a motorized army unit

• a mounted police officer

• a state police officer

• a soldier mounted on horseback

• someone who is victorious by force of arms

• the contestant who wins the contest

• a gambler who wins a bet

• a person with a record of successes

• an opponent who resists with force or resolution

• a fighter who holds out against attack