combatantとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.bə.tənt/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /kəm.ˈbæ.tənt/

名詞

combatant (複数形 combatants)

1. A person engaged in combat, often armed.

   Gladiators were combatants who fought to the death to entertain the public.

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     Come hither, you that would be combatants:

     Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,

     Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.

   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, London: for the author, Volume 1, Chapter 3, p. 112,^[2]

     On the passage, one day, for the diversion of those gentlemen, all the boys were called on the quarter deck, and were paired proportionably, and then made to fight; after which the gentlemen gave the combatants from five to nine shillings each.

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 12,^[3]

     If any combatant was struck down, and unable to recover his feet, his squire or page might enter the lists, and drag his master out of the press; but in that case the knight was adjudged vanquished […]

   • 1992, William M. Hutchins and Angele Botros Samaan (translators), Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz, New York: Anchor Books, 1993, Chapter 48, p. 271,^[4]

     “ […] Don’t you realize that alcohol is an essential part of heroism? The combatant and the drunkard are brothers, you genius.”

派生語

• contractor combatant
• enemy combatant
• illegal combatant
• non-combatant

同意語

• battler
• fighter

形容詞

combatant (comparative more combatant, superlative most combatant)

1. Contending; disposed to contend.
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, The Magnetic Lady, New York: Henry Holt, 1914, Act III, Scene 5, p. 65,^[5]

     Their valours are not yet so combatant,

     Or truly antagonistick, as to fight;

2. Involving combat.
   • 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: Modern Library, 1932, Part Two, Chapter 1, p. 71,^[6]

     He wished he were in a combatant service; he wanted to fight, fight.