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Definition: Traitor |
TraitorNoun1. Someone who betrays his country by committing treason. 2. A person who says one thing and does another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "traitor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To see a traitor in your dream, foretells you will have enemies working to despoil you. If some one calls you one, or if you imagine yourself one, there will be unfavorable prospects of pleasure for you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TraitorSynonyms: betrayer (n), double-crosser (n), double-dealer (n), treasonist (n), two-timer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disobedience | Insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader. |
Knave | Traitor, betrayer, archtraitor, conspirator, Judas, Catiline; reptile, serpent, snake in the grass, wolf in sheep's clothing, sneak, Jerry Sneak, squealer, tell-tale, mischief-maker; trimmer, fence-sitter, renegade; (tergiversation); truant, recreant; sycophant; (servility). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Traitor |
| English words defined with "traitor": ambidextrous, Archtraitor, Arnold ♦ Benedict Arnold ♦ collaborate ♦ deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous ♦ Janus-faced ♦ Proitor ♦ Traitorly, traitress, Treacher, Treachour, two-faced. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "traitor": Cat Proverbs, Cava, Corner ♦ Hafed ♦ Kerioth ♦ Odorico ♦ Rabelais' Dodge, Rouen ♦ Yellow-boy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "traitor": Archtraitor ♦ Traditor, Traitorly, Treacher. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I feel like a traitor. (Traffic; writing credit: Stephen Gaghan) So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all but I don't get how guys dress today. (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) It's not about spite, it's about petty revenge, and getting back at that traitor Moe. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I'll hang that traitor if it's the last thing I do on God's earth. (George Washington; writing credit: Jon Boothe; Richard Fielder) | |
Lyrics | Well they'll call you a hero or a traitor (Do What You Gotta Do; performing artist: Garth Brooks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Traitor (1971) The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) Traitor Spy (1940) The Traitor (1936) An Innocent Traitor (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The traitor, the thief, the liar, the murderess, the criminal sits there. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. |
John Selden | 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. |
Julius Caesar | I love treason but hate a traitor. |
Samuel Daniel | Princes in this case do hate the traitor, though they love the treason. |
Theodore Roosevelt | The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. |
Thomas Dekker | This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The mob is traitor to the people. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A traitor, an adulterer! |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Here is the head of that ignoble traitor, The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings. |
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Human Rights | Tunisia | Plainclothes police took her documents from her and shouted abusive epithets, calling her a traitor to her country. (references) |
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| "Traitor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.97% of the time. "Traitor" is used about 246 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.97% | 241 | 19,264 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.03% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 246 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "traitor": proclaim smb. a traitor ♦ turn traitor. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "traitor": anti-traitor, arch-traitor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
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cheat code gate traitor | 3 | magi nation reach traitor | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "traitor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tradhtar (betrayer, deceitful, disloyal, Judas, Quisling, rat, recreant, renegade, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, turnback). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عميل مأجور (mercenary), خائن العهد, خائن (betrayer, deceiver, disloyal, faithless, false, perfidious, renegade, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, unfaithful, unreliable, untrue), الخائن (rat, recreant, squealer, turncoat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | предател (betrayer, rat, sellout), изменник (apostate, defector, recreant, turnabout, turncoat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 背叛者 , 宄 , 奸贼, 奸 , 叛逆者 , 叛變 (renegade, to betray one's country), 叛' (turncoat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zrádce (betrayer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خیانتکار (Conspirator, Treacherous), خاءن (Renegade, Traitorous, Treacherous, Untrue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | petturi (betrayer), maankavaltaja, kavaltaja (defaulter, embezzler), isänmaankavaltaja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | traître (traitorous, treacherous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verräter (betrayer, traitors, turncoat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προδότησ (betrayer, recreant, squealer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בו'" (betrayer, disloyal, faithless, renegade, treacherous, turncoat, unfaithful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | áruló (betrayer, delator, denunciator, disloyal, judas, perfidious, rat, snitcher, squealer, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengkhianat, pendurhaka (insurgent, rebel), cumi-cumi (criminal, enemy spy, evildoer, squid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | traditore (betrayer, traitorous, treacherous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 背信者 , 賊子 (rebel, rebellious child), 逆賊 (insurgent, rebel), 逆' (rebel), 裏切者 (betrayer, informer, turncoat), 裏切り者 (betrayer, informer, turncoat), 朝敵 (an enemy of the court), 反逆者 (rebel), 反逆人 (rebel), 乱臣 , 佞臣 (crafty courtier), 売国奴 , 国賊 (rebel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぞくし (rebel, rebellious child), ぎゃくぞく (insurgent, rebel), ぎゃくと (rebel), ねいし" (crafty courtier), うらぎりもの (betrayer, informer, turncoat), ばい"くど, "くぞく (rebel), ら"し" (going mad, mental derangement), はいし"しゃ, は"ぎゃくしゃ (rebel), は"ぎゃくに" (rebel), ちょうてき (an enemy of the court). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 배반자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | traitoor (betrayer), braheyder (betrayer), brahder (betrayer, detector, informer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aitortray traidor (betrayer, black list, judas, quisling, renegade, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable). (various references) trãdãtor (foul, perfidious, Ratter, recreant, renegade, traitorous, treacherous, turncoat), dezertor (deserter, renegade, runaway). (various references) предатель (betrayer, quisling, quislings, rat, recreant). (various references) trù (a beastly being, villain). (various references) veleizdajnik, nevernik (atheist, disbeliever, infidel, jilt, kafir, miscreant, non believer, nonbeliever, unbeliever), izdajnik (betrayer, judas, turncoat), izdajica (quisling). (various references) traidor (betrayer, delator, double-dealer, Quisling, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, villain). (various references) quisling (Quisling), förrädare (betrayer, fifth columnist, Judas, traiotor). (various references) vatan haini (Quisling), hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked), dürzü (scoundler, scoundrel). (various references) iзaly (spy), haяyn, dцnьk (turn-coat). (various references) зрадник (apostate, betrayer, changeling, rat, recreant). (various references) kẻ phản bội (quisling, turback, turncoat). (various references) teyrnfradwr, bradwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | proditor, proditores. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | felon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ioudan iakwbou kai ioudan iskariwthn oV kai egeneto prodothV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Iudam Iacobi et Iudam Scarioth qui fuit proditor |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Iudam. Iacobi. and iudam scarioð se wæs læwa; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Judas of James, and Judas Scarioth, that was traytoure. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Iudas Iames sonne and Iudas Iscarioth which same was the traytour. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who also was the traitor. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Judas, the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, he who was false to him. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | ug si Judas nga anak ni Santiago, ug si Judas Iscariote nga nahimong mabudhion. |
| Croatian | i Judu Jakovljeva, i Judu Iškariotskoga, koji posta izdajica. |
| Danish | Judas, Jakobs Søn, og Judas Iskariot, som blev Forræder. |
| Dutch | Judas Jakobi, en Judas Iskariot, die ook de verrader geworden is. |
| Finnish | ja Juudaan, Jaakobin pojan, sekä Juudas Iskariotin, josta tuli kavaltaja. |
| French | Jude, fils de Jacques; et Judas Iscariot, qui devint traître. |
| German | Judas, des Jakobus Sohn und Judas Ischariot, den Verräter. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yudas anak Yakobus dan Yudas Iskariot yang kemudian menjadi pengkhianat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan Yudas, anak Yakub, dan Yudas Iskariot, yang menjadi orang belot. |
| Italian | Giuda di Giacomo e Giuda Iscariota, che fu il traditore. |
| Latvian | Un Jûdu, Jçkaba dçlu, un Jûdasu Iskariotu, kas kïuva nodevçjs. |
| Manx Gaelic | As Judas braar Yamys, as Yuaase Iscariot, va myrgeddin yn traitoor. |
| Maori | Ko Hura tama a Hemi, ko Hura Ikariote hoki, ko ia nei te kaituku. |
| Norwegian | og Judas, Jakobs sønn, og Judas Iskariot, som blev forræder. |
| Portuguese | Judas, filho de Tiago; e Judas Iscariotes, que veio a ser o traidor. |
| Rumanian | pe Iuda, fiul lui Iacov; wi pe Iuda Iscarioteanul, care s`a fqcut vknzqtor. |
| Shuar | Jakupu yachi Jútassha, tura Jútas Iskariúti Jesusan ukunam surukmia nu. Nu tuse achikma ármiayi. |
| Swahili | Yuda wa Yakobo na Yuda Iskarioti ambaye baadaye alikuwa msaliti. |
| Swedish | vidare Judas, Jakobs son, och Judas Iskariot, den som blev en förrädare. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "traitor": traitoress, traitoresses, traitorous, traitorously, traitors. (additional references) | |
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"Traitor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Briatore, Tradito, trahison, trailor, Trailtrow, trainor, traite, traited, traiter, traiteur, traitore, Tranto, trantor, trator, Trifthorn, triter, tritr. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "traitor" (pronounced trā"ter) |
| 5 | t r ā" t er | straighter. |
| 4 | -r ā" t er | crater, curator, Frater, freighter, grater, greater, Prater, rater. |
| 3 | -ā" t er | cater, creator, debater, deflator, dictator, equator, gaiter, gator, hater, inflator, later, Pater, Plater, skater, Slater, stater, translator, Viator, vindicator, waiter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-o-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: ottar, ratio, tarot, trait. | |
-3 letters: airt, iota, orra, rato, riot, roar, rota, roti, taro, tart, tiro, toit, tora, tori, torr, tort, trio, trot. | |
-4 letters: air, ait, art, att, oar, oat, ora, ort, rat, ria, rot, tao, tar, tat, tit, tor, tot. | |
-5 letters: ai, ar, at, it, or, ta, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-o-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: nitrator, portrait, titrator, traditor, traitors. | |
+2 letters: literator, nitrators, portraits, throatier, titrators, trattoria, trattorie. | |
+3 letters: arbitrator, aristocrat, carrotiest, elutriator, extirpator, garrotting, integrator, irritation, literators, meritocrat, retraction, rusticator, stratiform, terminator, torrential, traditores, traitoress, traitorous, transistor, transitory, trattorias, trichromat, triturator. | |
+4 letters: arbitration, arbitrators, aristocrats, articulator, astrometric, cirrostrati, contrariety, corporatist, deteriorate, directorate, dissertator, elutriators, extirpators, frustration, gastrotrich, illustrator, infiltrator, integrators, interrogate, irritations, meritocrats, nonirritant, obliterator, partitioner, parturition, portraitist, portraiture, proletariat, propitiator, prostrating, prostration, protractile, protracting, protraction, protractive, reiteration, reorientate, repartition, restoration, restorative, retaliatory, retardation, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, retroactive, rusticators, terminators, territorial, tetrasporic, transistors, triceratops, trichromats, trituration, triturators, vituperator. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 69 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- .. - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a i t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 0069 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54846775868184 |
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