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Definition of traitor in English:

traitor

noun ˈtreɪtəˈtreɪdər
  • A person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause, or principle.

    he was a traitor to his own class
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It dismisses an entire culture in the eastern part of our nation as troublemakers and traitors.
    • From time to time, every spy agency falls victim to a mole, a traitor, or a double agent.
    • A traitor is a person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause or principle.
    • They are traitors, and we delight in calling them scabs as they drive into work.
    • The liars, the traitors, the thugs, and the outlaws cannot be handed the destiny of a nation like India.
    • It split the union - he was accused of being a traitor and his followers scabs.
    • The traitor will receive the information in the most discreet way possible.
    • Even my brothers have sent me a number of cruel e-mail accusing me of betraying the family and being a traitor.
    • Her family are adamantly opposed to her relationship and friends reject her as a traitor.
    • Japanese spies and traitors gathered there and caused a lot of trouble.
    • They condoned actions such as assassinations, bombs without warnings and the summary execution of informers and traitors.
    • Used to traitors bargaining information for food or freedom, they were caught off balance.
    • This is not a democratic sport of the people, which has been betrayed by some money-grubbing traitors.
    • It also claimed that only a handful of traitors had collaborated with the Nazis.
    • Insurrectionists, traitors and fifth columnists were a feature of our political landscape.
    • My friend thinks we are traitors and sulks and snaps at us if we don't react to situations the same way she does.
    • Either way, his fate was sealed: he was executed a few weeks later, his body left hanging from the gallows as a grim warning of the fate of traitors.
    • Nothing untoward happened to the traitor until he upped sticks and defected to Moscow.
    • The talk was of victories and defeats, of holy war and martyrs, of betrayal and the punishments for traitors to the cause.
    • It is an age-old tactic of fascists to target trade unionists and label them a fifth column or traitors.
    Synonyms
    betrayer, back-stabber, double-crosser, double-dealer, renegade, Judas, quisling, fifth columnist, viper
    turncoat, defector, apostate, deserter
    collaborator, fraternizer, colluder, informer, double agent
    informal snake in the grass, two-timer, rat, scab
    rare traditor, tergiversator, renegado

Phrases

  • turn traitor

    • Betray a group or person.

      she'd had the gall to deny she had turned traitor
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One of the key prosecution witnesses at his trial was a trusted comrade who had turned traitor.
      • Another paper details the inner workings of a normally benign bug that has evolved drug-resistance and turns traitor when its human host is weakened by disease.
      • You would trust a man that just had a ship shot out from under him, and turned traitor to his own service to help run your ship?
      • But there were other, subtler ways of turning traitor, and he felt her coming absence, looming two afternoons a week, as proof of that.
      • She's already turned traitor on her own people once, and as convincing as her story is I'm not going to rule out the possibility she'll do it again.
      • Others have turned traitor, switching allegiances from synthesisers to guitars.
      • It's the punishment for turning traitor and helping the opponents during a war.
      • Friends turn traitor and fellow countrymen become the enemy in a war-torn world where the old rules are worthless.
      • Shocked by this news, each of us began to deny that we would ever turn traitor.
      • He was afraid of the power I had, so he turned traitor.
      Synonyms
      break one's promise to, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break faith with, play someone false, fail, let down

Origin

Middle English: from Old French traitour, from Latin traditor, from tradere 'hand over'.

  • tradition from Late Middle English:

    A tradition is something passed on and comes from Latin from tradere ‘deliver’ formed from trans- ‘across’ and dare ‘give’. The abbreviation trad dates from the 1950s, usually in the context of jazz. Traitor (Middle English), someone who hands over things to the enemy, and treason (Middle English) the act of handing over, are from the same root.

Rhymes

cater, crater, creator, curator, data, debater, delator, dumbwaiter, equator, fascinator, freighter, frustrater, gaiter, grater, gyrator, hater, later, legator, mater, negator, pater, peseta, plater, rotator, skater, slater, stater, tater, ultimata, understater, upstater, waiter
 
 

Definition of traitor in US English:

traitor

nounˈtrādərˈtreɪdər
  • A person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc.

    they see me as a traitor, a sellout to the enemy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The traitor will receive the information in the most discreet way possible.
    • It also claimed that only a handful of traitors had collaborated with the Nazis.
    • It split the union - he was accused of being a traitor and his followers scabs.
    • Nothing untoward happened to the traitor until he upped sticks and defected to Moscow.
    • They are traitors, and we delight in calling them scabs as they drive into work.
    • The liars, the traitors, the thugs, and the outlaws cannot be handed the destiny of a nation like India.
    • My friend thinks we are traitors and sulks and snaps at us if we don't react to situations the same way she does.
    • A traitor is a person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause or principle.
    • From time to time, every spy agency falls victim to a mole, a traitor, or a double agent.
    • This is not a democratic sport of the people, which has been betrayed by some money-grubbing traitors.
    • Either way, his fate was sealed: he was executed a few weeks later, his body left hanging from the gallows as a grim warning of the fate of traitors.
    • Her family are adamantly opposed to her relationship and friends reject her as a traitor.
    • The talk was of victories and defeats, of holy war and martyrs, of betrayal and the punishments for traitors to the cause.
    • Even my brothers have sent me a number of cruel e-mail accusing me of betraying the family and being a traitor.
    • Japanese spies and traitors gathered there and caused a lot of trouble.
    • They condoned actions such as assassinations, bombs without warnings and the summary execution of informers and traitors.
    • It is an age-old tactic of fascists to target trade unionists and label them a fifth column or traitors.
    • Insurrectionists, traitors and fifth columnists were a feature of our political landscape.
    • Used to traitors bargaining information for food or freedom, they were caught off balance.
    • It dismisses an entire culture in the eastern part of our nation as troublemakers and traitors.
    Synonyms
    betrayer, back-stabber, double-crosser, double-dealer, renegade, judas, quisling, fifth columnist, viper

Phrases

  • turn traitor

    • Betray a group or person.

      to think of a man like you turning traitor to his class
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was afraid of the power I had, so he turned traitor.
      • It's the punishment for turning traitor and helping the opponents during a war.
      • Shocked by this news, each of us began to deny that we would ever turn traitor.
      • Another paper details the inner workings of a normally benign bug that has evolved drug-resistance and turns traitor when its human host is weakened by disease.
      • Others have turned traitor, switching allegiances from synthesisers to guitars.
      • You would trust a man that just had a ship shot out from under him, and turned traitor to his own service to help run your ship?
      • Friends turn traitor and fellow countrymen become the enemy in a war-torn world where the old rules are worthless.
      • She's already turned traitor on her own people once, and as convincing as her story is I'm not going to rule out the possibility she'll do it again.
      • One of the key prosecution witnesses at his trial was a trusted comrade who had turned traitor.
      • But there were other, subtler ways of turning traitor, and he felt her coming absence, looming two afternoons a week, as proof of that.
      Synonyms
      break one's promise to, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break faith with, play someone false, fail, let down

Origin

Middle English: from Old French traitour, from Latin traditor, from tradere ‘hand over’.

 
 
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