Definitions for partisan

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partisan par·ti·san

Spelling: [pahr-tuh-zuh n, -suh n; Bri

IPA: /ˈpɑr tə zən, -sən; British ˌpɑr təˈzæn/

Partisan is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 406 anagrams from letters in partisan (aainprst).

Definitions for partisan

noun

1. an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
2. Military. a member of a party of light or irregular troops engaged in harassing an enemy, especially a member of a guerrilla band engaged in fighting or sabotage against an occupying army.
3. a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of partisans; partial to a specific party, person, etc.:
2. of, relating to, or carried on by military partisans or guerrillas.

Origin of partisan

1545-55; Middle French, from Upper Italian parteźan (Tuscan partigiano), equivalent to part(e) “faction, part” + -eźan (from unattested Vulgar Latin *-ēs- Examples for partisan

The two parties in Patusan were not sure which one this partisan most desired to plunder.

The first meeting featured multiple speakers deeply rooted in a partisan agenda.

She was the partisan on Tom's side, the adherent on her father's.

In a partisan warfare this position was the best that could have been taken.

For at this moment I am sensible that I have not the temper of a philosopher; like the vulgar, I am only a partisan.

This is a job for independent committees, like Bowles-Simpson, not a partisan slugfest.

Your young blood feels only the partisan promptings of dislike.

It was a rare moment of bipartisan unity in partisan Washington.

Despite any partisan enmities, the two top politicos maintained a cordial relationship.

And lest you be deceived, primary elections are no partisan monopoly.