Definitions for defendant

defendant de·fend·ant

Spelling: [dih-fen-duh nt or especially in court for 1, -dant]
IPA: /dɪˈfɛn dənt or especially in court for 1, -dænt/

Defendant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in defendant (addeefnnt).

Definitions for defendant

noun

  1. Law. a person, company, etc., against whom a claim or charge is brought in a court (opposed to plaintiff).
  2. Obsolete. defender.

adjective

  1. making one's defense; defending:
  2. Obsolete. defensive.

Origin of defendant

1275-1325; Middle English defendaunt Anglo-French (Middle French, Old French defendant). See defend, -ant

Examples for defendant

“defendant moved his hands in a manner so as to avoid the application of handcuffs to his wrists,” the complaint says.

The complaint continues, “During this period of time, defendant escaped police custody.”

Rufus Choate represented the defendant and Daniel Webster the plaintiff.

And you, Cabasse, have you nothing to say either for or against the defendant?

They obtained a gag order against the defendant and his lawyers restricting what they could say about the case for several months.

In all this Eleazer had the air of conducting the case for the defendant.

“He might want 50 of this size and 40 of these,” said Crowder, who has been named as a defendant in dozens of lawsuits.

“The defendant told me he did not want to go back so jail,” the affidavit says.

Did any one accompany the defendant to St. Pancras that night?

The witness remembered how at the inquiry the defendant Ray had defended his accomplice.

Word Value for defendant
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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