freedom fighter

noun

: a person who takes part in a resistance movement against an oppressive political or social establishment

Examples of freedom fighter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Their street protests across the 2000s ultimately gave rise to future freedom fighter Volodymyr Zelensky being elected president in 2019, with a hyper-tech campaign across Ukraine’s cybersphere that was engineered by Web wunderkind Mykhailo Fedorov. — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

The design showed freedom fighters raising the Haitian flag in victory. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026

While widely derided in Poland and Russia, the UPA is viewed as heroic freedom fighters for Ukrainian independence by many in Ukraine today. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026

The design contained an image of several freedom fighters raising the country’s flag, based on the final battle of the Haitian Revolution, which freed the island’s inhabitants from slavery under French rule. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for freedom fighter

• copywriter
• expediter
• underwriter
• biter
• brighter
• lighter
• miter
• niter
• reiter
• righter
• slighter
• tighter

Kids Definition

freedom fighter

noun

: a person who takes part in a movement against an oppressive political or social system