SWORDBEARERS Synonyms

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• engaging in or ready for combat

• a disputant who advocates reform

• a warrior who engages in a holy war

• a person who cares for persons or property

• a fighter who holds out against attack

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air

• someone who fights for a cause

• (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat

• a professional boxer

• a person who cares for persons or property

• 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

• originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

• a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

• raise (someone) to knighthood

• a militant reformer

• disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

• showing a fighting disposition

• engaged in war

• a person who cares for persons or property

• 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

• someone engaged in or experienced in warfare

• a heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times