Definitions for Martyr

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Martyr mar·tyr

Spelling: [mahr-ter]

IPA: /ˈmɑr tər/

Martyr is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in Martyr (amrrty).

Definitions for Martyr

noun

1. a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
2. a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause:
3. a person who undergoes severe or constant suffering:
4. a person who seeks sympathy or attention by feigning or exaggerating pain, deprivation, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a martyr of, especially by putting to death.
2. to torment or torture.

Origin of Martyr

before 900; (noun) Middle English marter, Old English martyr Late Latin Late Greek mártyr, variant of Greek mártys, mártyros witness; (v.) Middle English martiren, Old English martyrian, deri

Examples for Martyr

She had beheld the Virgin, she was the chosen one, the martyr.

Conservative Muslim women in Turkey hailed Esme as a martyr and a symbol of female strength and resistance.

I must not make a martyr of myself, when I am one of so large a company.'

At bottom he is simply a martyr who has followed the wrong track.

Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA), the House Armed Services Committee chairman, cast Cantor as a martyr for his party.

With that, writes historian Edward Larson, “The fundamentalist movement acquired a martyr.”

He informed her that Hamzat had “become a shahid,” a martyr, and he was dead.

I found it in this cell, after the death of the martyr, and have preserved it as a relic.

The martyr's crown awaits them, for they display the martyr's spirit.

“Claiming that moderation in a time of such crisis is no virtue,” the martyr of American Russian studies declared.