Partisan

Definitions: Partisan

Partisan

Adjective

1. Affiliated with one party or faction.

2. Devoted to a cause or party.

3. Adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination or party; "denominational prejudice".

Noun

1. A fervent and even militant proponent of something.

2. An ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity.

3. A pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "partisan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Partisan

Arms

Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel.

Auxiliary

Votary; sectarian, secretary; seconder, backer, upholder, abettor, advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator; angel.

Combatant

Irregular, guerilla, partisan, condottiere; franctireur, tirailleur, bashi-bazouk; vietminh, vietcong; shining path; contras; huk, hukbalahap.

Friend

Favorer, fautor, patron, Mecaenas; tutelary saint, good genius, advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally; friend in need; (auxiliary).

Government

Adjective: political, partisan.

Pity

Sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.

Crosswords: Partisan

French (acolyte, adept, adherent, advocate, backer, devotee, follower, friend, henchman, member, partisan, proponent, subscriber, supporter), German (guerrilla, partisan), Swedish (partisan).

Der Partisan (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• And No Quarter: An Italian Partisan in World War II Memoirs of Giovanni Pesce (reference)

• Choices in Modern Jewish Thought: A Partisan Guide (reference)

• Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (reference)

• Polarized Politics: Congress and the President in a Partisan Era (reference)

• The Life of General Francis Marion: A Celebrated Partisan Officer, in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and geo (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Partisan Review (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Business

The law bars clergy from holding public office and from advocating partisan political positions. (references)

Civil Liberties

Indonesia

This provision, limits political activity and prohibits groups from seeking to engage in democratic political competition, to make Indonesia an Islamic state, to revive communism, or to reintroduce partisan ideological division into the country. (references)

Nicaragua

There are seven Managua-based television stations, six of which carry news programming, often with noticeable partisan political content. (references)

Singapore

However, they are aware that public comments outside the classroom or academic publications that venture into the prohibited areas--criticism of political leaders or sensitive social and economic policies, or comments that might disturb ethnic or religious harmony or that appear to advocate partisan political views--could subject them to sanctions. (references)

Economic History

Slovenia

In 1918, Slovenia joined with other southern Slav states in forming the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes as part of the peace plan at the end of World War I. Renamed in 1929 under a Serbian monarch, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia fell to the Axis powers during World War II. Following communist partisan resistance to German, Hungarian, and Italian occupation and elimination of rival resistance groups, socialist Yugoslavia was born under the helm of Josip Broz Tito. (references)

Serbia and Montenegro

As war progressed, the local strength of the communists grew and Montenegro served as an effective base for communism in the region; it was an important refuge for Tito's Partisan forces during the most difficult points in the struggle. (references)

Haiti

Partisan rancor from the election dispute led to deep divisions within Parliament and between the legislative and executive branches, resulting in almost total governmental gridlock. (references)

Human Rights

Georgia

During the year, the Government criticized these partisan groups and in 2000 had arrested some partisans, including Davit Shengalia, the leader of the partisan organization "forest brothers." On September 4, Shengelia was attacked in a Zugdidi apartment; he survived, but the attackers killed three of his relatives. (references)

Georgia

Other local human rights groups are extensions of partisan political groups and these have little influence. (references)

Chad

Mbailaou had been in protective custody since May when Abakar, a partisan of the ruling MPS party, had been stabbed by supporters of another party and had fled to Mbailaou's bar for protection; he died outside the bar. (references)

Political Economy

Peru

In an effort to address impunity, the Government, Congress, and the judiciary undertook dozens of investigations during the year into political abuses and corruption of the Fujimori period (1990-2000). However, some of these investigations appeared to have politically partisan overtones. (references)

Kenya

The Government continued to limit the independence of its Standing Committee on Human Rights (SCHR), and the President continued to criticize nongovernmental human rights organizations (NGO's) for their alleged involvement in partisan politics. (references)

Mauritius

According to international and local observers, the national elections, held in September 2000, were free and fair, and resulted in a victory for an opposition coalition, the Mauritian Socialist Movement/Militant Mauritian Movement (MSM/MMM). There are numerous political parties, and partisan politics are open and robust. (references)

Political Rights

Guinea

President Conte made inflammatory and partisan speeches in June and July 2000, threatening opposition leaders with arrest and claiming to rule the country by "divine right." These statements were considered widely as attempts to intimidate his opponents. (references)

Bangladesh

Parliament's effectiveness as a deliberative body is undermined further by the country's relatively narrow partisan politics. (references)

Colombia

Public employees are not permitted to participate in partisan campaigns. (references)

Worker Rights

El Salvador

The Labor Code prohibits partisan political activity by unions. (references)

Liberia

The Constitution also provides that unions are prohibited from engaging in partisan political activity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "partisan": partisan bias ♦ partisan ranger ♦ partisan war ♦ partisan warfare. Additional references.

Ending with "partisan": anti-partisan, non-partisan.

Albanian

partizan (backer, guerrilla), përkrahës (abettor, adherent, advocate, allied, backer, booster, champion, devotee, encouraging, exponent, follower, friend, help, promoter, satellite, supporter, upholder). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موال, ‏محازب, ‏محارب غير نظامي, ‏مشايع (partial), ‏النصير (adherent, backer, champion, devotee, exponent, patron, protector, supporter), ‏أنصاري. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сектантски (nonconformist, sectarian), фанатичен (bigoted, fanatic, fanatical, rabid, zealous), алебарда (bill, halberd, pole-ax), пристрастен (addicted, hooked, interested, jug-handled, one sided, partial, tendentious, unfair), привърженик (addict, adherent, believer, follower, hanger-on, henchman, lover, proselyte, supporter, upholder, votary), поддръжник (adherent, advocate, backer, expounder, supporter, upholder, votary), партизански, партизанин (guerilla, guerrilla). (various references)

Chinese 

黨派 (political party related), 伙伴 , 党羽. (various references)

Czech

přívrženec (devotee, disciple, follower, sympathizer), partyzán (guerilla, guerrilla), straník. (various references)

Farsi 

پیرومتعصب , پارتیزان (Guerilla), حامی (Actor, Advocate, Backer, Booster, Bulwark, Patron, Protector, Shield, Sponsor), طرفدار (Advocate, Cohort, Partial, Party, Proponent, Votary). (various references)

Finnish

puoluekiihko (partisan spirit, party zeal). (various references)

French

partisan. (various references)

German

partisan (guerrilla), parteilich (biased, party), parteiisch (biased, one sided, partial, partially), parteigänger, freischärler (franctireur, franctireurs, guerrilla, irregular), anhänger (acolyte, adherent, adherents, adherer, clinger, collectivist, devotee, devotees, disciple, enthusiast, fan, farm trailer, farm truck, farm wagon, follower, hanger, henchman, hooking platform, label, lazy board, marketeer, member, monkey board, pendant, pendants, racking platform, runaround, supporter, tag, thribble board, tipping tumbril, trailer, trailer truck, trailers, tumbril). (various references)

Greek 

αντάρτησ (insurgent, insurrectionist, mutineer, rebel), οπαδόσ (adherent, believer, concomitant, disciple, follower), θιασώτησ (enthusiast, fan, votarist, votary). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצ�"�" (bias, follower, partial, supporter, taking side), תומך א�"וק, פרטיזן, ח�" צ�"�"י (one sided, unilateral), �"בק (attached to, attachment, cement, cleaving, glue, gum, paste, sticking to). (various references)

Hungarian

partizán (bushwhacker, guerilla, guerrilla). (various references)

Indonesian

gerilya (guerrilla). (various references)

Italian

partigiano, fazioso (factious), aderente (adherent, clinging, close fitting, fitted, follower, skin-tight, snug, sticking, supporter, tight). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

パルス幅変調 (palace, Palestine, palette, pallet, parade, Parmesan cheese, party, pulp, pulp magazine, pulse width modulation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パルチザン . (various references)

Korean 

게릴라 대원. (various references)

Manx

paarteenagh, cleaynt (inclined, oblique, rakish angle). (various references)

Pig Latin

artisanpay

Portuguese

partidário (acolyte, adept, adherent, backer, follower, friend, obedientiary, party discipline, Professor, proselyte, pursuivant, retainer, sticker, upholder, votary), sequaz (follower, obeisance, proselyte, pursuivant), moribundo (dyke, morion), guerrilheiro (guerilla leader, guess), frenético (berserk, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, phrenetic), exaltado (exalted, frenetic, high-level, high-up, hot tempered, hot-brained, hot-headed, impassive, phrenetic, rampant, up, volcanic), alabarda (halberd, pole-ax). (various references)

Romanian

partizan (adherent, advocate, bushwhacker, follower, friend, guerrilla, supporter, sympathizer, upholder), fanatic (devotee, fanatic, fanatical, fanatically, phrenetic, rabid, zealot), de partizani, adept (adherent, advocate, backer, champion, dependant, dependent, devotee, disciple, follower, hanger-on, initiate, proselyte, sectary, supporter, sympathizer, upholder, votarist, votary, zealot). (various references)

Russian 

сторонник (an advocate of, believer, bottle-holder, champion, proponent, stickler, supporter, sympathizer, upholder). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

partizanski, partizan (follower), sledbenik (adherent, follower, henchman, pursuivant, successor). (various references)

Spanish

partidista (factional), partidario (acolyte, addict, adept, adherent, advocate, backer, believer, devotee, follower, guerrilla, hard liner, member, retainer, sharecropper, supporter, supremacist, sympathizer, well wisher), parcial (fragmentary, interim, one sided, part, partial, prejudiced, segmental), seguidor (follower, supporter, tracker), guerrillero (bushwhacker, guerrilla, irregular), de guerrilleros. (various references)

Swedish

anhängare (adherent, devotee, disciple, follower, following, supporter). (various references)

Turkish

partizan, yandaş (adherent, advocate, follower, sympathizer), taraftar (adherent, advocate, fan, favorable, favourable, follower, pro, side, supporter, sympathetic, sympathizer), gerilla (guerilla, guerrilla), baltalı kargı (halberd). (various references)

Turkmen 

partisan (r), яaran (adherent, supporter). (various references)

Ukranian 

фанатичний (bigotted, enthusiastic, enthusiastical, fanatic, fanatical, frenetic, phrenetic, zelotic), фанатик (bigot, fanatic, fundamentalist, mucker, sectarian, zealot), прибічник (advocate, satellite, votary), партизанський (guerilla, guerrilla), партизан (guerilla, guerrilla). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trường thương, người theo một đảng phái. (various references)

Welsh

pleidiwr (supporter), pleidgar, parti%ol (biased, partial). (various references)

fautor, phasor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "partisan": partisanly, partisans, partisanship, partisanships. (additional references)

Words ending with "partisan": bipartisan, nonpartisan. (additional references)

Words containing "partisan": bipartisanism, bipartisanisms, bipartisanship, bipartisanships, nonpartisans, nonpartisanship, nonpartisanships. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Partisan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bartsia, parian, Parison, Paritsa, parlian, partici, Partida, Partidas, Partija, partisanly, partisian, partison, partitas, Partiya, pastisan, patesians, Pattisson, Patusan, pertussin, pratica. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aspirant.

-1 letter: antiars, artisan, parians, partans, pastina, patinas, pinatas, piranas, spartan, spirant, taipans, tarpans, trapans, tsarina.

-2 letters: antiar, arista, instar, nairas, paints, paisan, parian, partan, patina, patins, pinata, pintas, pirana, prints, ptisan, rapist, ratans, riatas, santir, satrap, sprain, sprint, strain, taipan, tapirs, tarpan, tarsia, tiaras, trains, trapan.

-3 letters: airns, airts, antas, antis, antra, apart, apian, arias, astir, ataps, atria, atrip, inapt, naira, naris, nipas, pains, paint, pairs, paisa, pants, paras, paris, parts, pasta, patin, pians, pinas, pinta, pints, pirns, pitas, prats, print, raias, rains, ranis, rants, ratan, riant, riata, saint, saran, sarin, satin, sitar, spait, spirt, sprat, sprit, stain, stair, stirp, strap, stria, strip, tains, tapas, tapir, tapis, tarns, tarps, tarsi, tiara, train, trans, traps, trips.

-4 letters: ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anas, anis, ansa, anta, anti, ants, aria, arts, atap, naps, nipa, nips, nits, pain, pair, pans, pant, para, pars, part, past, pats, pian, pias, pina, pins, pint, pirn, pita, pits, prat, raia, rain, rani, rant, raps, rapt, rasp, rats, rias, rins, rips, sain, sari, sati, snap, snip, snit, span, spar, spat, spin, spit, star, stir, tain, tans, tapa, taps, tarn, tarp, tars, tins, tips, trap, trip, tsar.

-5 letters: aas, ain, air, ais, ait, ana, ani, ant, apt, ars, art, asp, ins, its, nap, nip, nit, pan, par, pas, pat, pia, pin, pis, pit, psi, ran, rap, ras, rat, ria, rin, rip, sap, sat, sin, sip, sir, sit, spa, sri, tan, tap, tar, tas, tin, tip, tis.

+1 letter: aspirants, cantraips, partisans, partizans.

+2 letters: appertains, asperating, aspirating, aspiration, bipartisan, parathions, partisanly, patricians, ptarmigans, separating, separation, tarpaulins.

+3 letters: antiphrases, antiphrasis, apparitions, artisanship, aspirations, ceratopsian, greasepaint, nonpartisan, pageantries, pancratiums, pancreatins, parliaments, paternalism, paternalist, peasantries, planarities, postcranial, praetorians, reparations, separations, transalpine, unaspirated.

+4 letters: anticipators, antipiracies, antipleasure, appraisement, approbations, artisanships, aspirational, ceratopsians, depravations, emancipators, endoparasite, evaporations, exasperating, exasperation, greasepaints, impartations, manipulators, naprapathies, nonparasitic, nonpartisans, pancreatitis, pantisocracy, parasitising, parasitizing, paronomastic, participants, partisanship, paternalisms, paternalists, planetariums, plantigrades, pleasantries, postprandial, preparations, profanations, proletarians, propagandist, propagations, straphanging, transpacific, transshaping, trepanations, watermanship.

+5 letters: anisometropia, antiparasitic, antiparticles, antiphonaries, antipleasures, antipredators, appraisements, appreciations, azathioprines, bipartisanism, coplanarities, craftsmanship, cryptanalysis, deuteranopias, disparagement, disparateness, draftsmanship, endoparasites, endoparasitic, exasperations, expatriations, grantsmanship, haruspication, inspirational, intrapersonal, malabsorption, mastigophoran, naturopathies, pantisocratic, paralyzations, paramagnetism, paramountcies, parasynthesis, parasynthetic, partisanships, paternalistic, pediatricians, phalansteries, plantocracies, polarizations, postcranially, postinaugural, postlapsarian, practicalness, proclamations, procrastinate, propagandists, prostaglandin, repatriations, replantations, separationist, spermatogonia, supernational, supranational, suprarational, transcriptase, transpiration, transplanting, unparasitized, vaporizations, watermanships.

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