Litigant

Definition: Litigant

Litigant

Noun

1. (law) a party to a lawsuit.

Date "litigant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Finance	A person engaged in a lawsuit. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A party involved in a lawsuit, a litigant is a person suing or being sued, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit. This does not include witnesses or other persons who may be called to court during a trial - just the parties themselves.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
LIP	English	Litigant in Person	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Litigant

Synonym: litigator (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Accusation	Accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent; litigant.
Combatant	Noun: combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough.
Discord	Quarrelsome, unpacific; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.
Judge	Litigant; (accusation).
Lawsuit	Suitor, party to a suit; plaintiff, defendant, litigant.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Litigant

Specialty definitions using "litigant": Barristers' Gowns ♦ FORMA ♦ litigant ♦ Peebles. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Citizen in Court: Litigant, Witness, Juror, Judge (reference) Colonial litigant extraordinaire : the Edward Eagar story 1787-1866 : layman, attorney, merchant and lobbyist (reference) Lincoln the Litigant (reference) Responding to the needs of the self-represented divorce litigant (reference) The State As a Party Litigant (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Ser. 45, No. 1.) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FORMA :PAUPERIS:. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case. When Adam long ago in Cupid's awful court (For Cupid ruled ere Adam was invented) Sued for Eve's favor, says an ancient law report, He stood and pleaded unhabilimented. "You sue in forma pauperis, I see," Eve cried; "Actions can't here be that way prosecuted." So all poor Adam's motions coldly were denied: He went away -- as he had come -- nonsuited. G.J.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Litigant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Litigant" is used about 51 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)	100%	51	47,619

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.

Language		Translations for "litigant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndërgjyqës. (various references)

Arabic		‏متقاض, ‏طرف في دعوي, ‏خصم (adversary, antagonist, concurrent, deduct, discount, enemy, foe, hostile, knock off, levy, opposite, rebate, recoup, subtract, subtraction, withhold). (various references)

Bulgarian		страна в съдебен процес, тъжащ се. (various references)

Chinese		当事人. (various references)

Czech		vedoucí spor. (various references)

Danish		parter i sagen (party litigant, party to a dispute). (various references)

Dutch		pleitende partij (party litigant, party to a dispute), partij in het geding (party litigant, party to a dispute). (various references)

Farsi		مرافعه کننده , طرف دعوی . (various references)

Finnish		jutun osapuoli (party litigant, party to a dispute). (various references)

French		plaideur (party litigant). (various references)

German		prozesspartei, Prozessführer, prozessführende partei. (various references)

Greek		διάδικοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מתדין, בעל דין (complainant, disputant, opponent, person, plaintiff, suitor). (various references)

Hungarian		pereskedő. (various references)

Indonesian		penggugat (plaintiff), bersengketa. (various references)

Italian		litigante, contendente (contender). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		訴訟人 (plaintiff, suitor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そしょうにん (plaintiff, suitor). (various references)

Korean		소송 당사자. (various references)

Manx		fer ec y leigh, cassidagh (accusative, accused, indictable). (various references)

Pig Latin		itigantlay

Portuguese		contestável (actionable, constable, debatable, impugnable, questionable). (various references)

Romanian		litigios (contentious, controversial, litigious), împricinat (defendant). (various references)

Russian		сторона (aspect, behalf, cause, flank, part, party, side, sides), тяжущийся. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sporni, parnični, parničar. (various references)

Spanish		litigante (party litigant, party to a dispute). (various references)

Swedish		processande (litigation). (various references)

Turkish		davacı (claimant, complainant, libelant, libellant, orator, plaintiff, prosecutor, pursuer, suitor, the prosecution). (various references)

Ukranian		що позивається, позивач (claimant, complainant, demandant, exactor, petitioner, plaintiff, pursuer, suitor). (various references)

Vietnamese		người thích kiện cáo, người kiện người hay kiện. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "litigant": litigants. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Litigant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iltifat, Lonigan, Lorigan, Oiteagan. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "litigant" (pronounced li"tigunt)
4	-g u n t	arrogant, elegant, extravagant.
3	-u n t	abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-t-t"
	-1 letter: intagli, tailing, tilting, titling.
	-2 letters: ailing, gittin, lattin, nilgai, tiling, titian.
	-3 letters: algin, align, atilt, giant, glint, liang, ligan, linga, litai, taint, titan.
	-4 letters: agin, alit, anil, anti, gain, gait, gilt, glia, gnat, ilia, inia, inti, lain, lang, lati, ling, lint, nail, tail, tain, tali, tang, tilt, ting, tint, titi.
	-5 letters: ail, ain, ait, alt.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-t-t"
	+1 letter: latticing, litigants.
	+2 letters: etiolating, filtrating, levitating, litigating, litigation, militating, mutilating, tailgating, totalising, totalizing, ultimating.
	+3 letters: agitational, cultivating, elutriating, integrality, litigations, palpitating, retaliating, stimulating, stipulating, tangibility, tantalising, tantalizing, titillating, tribulating, ventilating, wildcatting.
	+4 letters: alliterating, anticlotting, articulating, cantillating, capitulating, debilitating, earsplitting, facilitating, felicitating, habilitating, hesitatingly, ignitability, illustrating, infiltrating, intertillage, irritatingly, italianating, legitimating, legitimation, multitasking, obliterating, reticulating, stridulating, triplicating.
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