traitor
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈtreɪtər/
- Offensive
:
traidor
- The community regarded him as a traitor after he revealed their plans to the enemy.
- turn traitor
- considered a traitor
- race traitors
Expose them for being the traitors that they are.
- Expose them for being the traitors that they are.
- But cruel are the times when we are traitors and do not know ourselves.
- Which are you, an idiot or a traitor?
- That they're basically not loyal to the Soviet Union, that they're acting like traitors, that they're ready.
- We weren't as close before all this, but after becoming a traitor in her eyes, we didn't talk much.
- My, my my friends and colleagues, other Glock guys, they they call me a traitor.
- But for the for the time being, from the perspective of the government, they're actually traitors.
- It's, you know, he he's not been a traitor for a long, long time.
- We are rebellious traitors from our origin.
Examples
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Already, several of his former colleagues had resigned, and others were executed as traitors to the revolution.
Academic text (2000) -
Whoever attends such a dialogue with a regime that commits these crimes is a traitor to the people.
Academic text (2012) -
Where are you going, traitor?
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And initially, initially, people even called me a traitor in Greece.
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For the last time, Traitor, I do not take orders from Greybacks.
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There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots.
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Kilpatrick himself was the traitor who had to be executed.
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But cruel are the times when we are traitors and do not know ourselves.
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We had already been suspecting for a longer time that there was a traitor in our barrack.
Academic text (2008) -
After the war, the eighty-six-year-old Hamsun was considered a traitor and was prosecuted before the High Court.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
46
7.9
A person who leaves and betrays their group
43
7.6
A person who leaves their country or group to join an opposing side
26
6.3
A person who breaks someone's trust by revealing secrets
18
8.1
A person who helps an enemy that occupies their country during a war
13
8.2
A person who leaves their group to join the opposite side
12
7.0
A person who betrays their principles for personal gain
8
5.1
A person who acts friendly but secretly betrays someone who trusts them
4
5.1
A person who leaves a group or cause and is seen as disloyal
2
6.8
A person who pretends to be loyal but betrays someone
2
9.9
A person who betrays their friends or group
2
9.9
A person who helps an enemy that controls their country
1
9.9
A person who betrays trust or their country
1
9.9
A person who secretly helps an enemy inside their country
1
8.5
A person who pretends to be a friend but secretly works against others
1
9.9
A person who is not brave and betrays friends or causes
A woman who betrays people or groups she should support
A person who betrays a friend while seeming loyal
A person who betrays their country by giving secrets to enemies
Antonyms
Compounds
How Loyal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Traitor comes from the Latin verb tradere, which means 'to hand over'. So a traitor is someone who 'hands over' a friend, group, or secret to an enemy, which is why the word means a person who betrays trust.