Traitor

Quick meaning: Traitor is a noun meaning Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country.

Meaning

Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) One who betrays any confidence or trust.
2. To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
3. Traitorous.
4. Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to their defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished.

Example Sentences

to find a subject staid and wise Already half turn'd traitor by surprise

It took you two weeks To go off and date her Guess you didn't cheat But you're still, you're still a traitor Yeah, you're still a traitor

Yes, that was Vice President Spiro Agnew commemorating the "loyalty" of literal traitors. But what can you really expect from a man whose name rearranged spells "grow a penis."

After World War I, the communists and Jews were accused to be traitors by the German right wing (the "stab-in-the-back myth"), ultimately culminating in their persecution and massacre.

Word Forms

• traitors
• traitour
• traitoring
• traitored

Synonyms for traitor

Depending on context, synonyms include quisling, Judas, turncoat, withersake, apostate, balimbing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include treasonist, double-crosser, betrayer, double-dealer, treason, traitorous.

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