Synonyms of combatants

combatants

noun

plural of combatant

as in soldiers

a person, group, or country that fights in a war or battle

Britain was a major combatant in World War II.

Related Words

• soldiers
• fighters
• troopers
• warriors
• belligerents
• servicemen
• legionaries
• infantrymen
• cavalrymen
• veterans
• marines
• legionnaires
• servicewomen
• dragoons
• Confederates
• raiders
• regulars
• cavaliers
• men-at-arms
• foot soldiers
• doughboys
• dogfaces
• riflemen
• cuirassiers
• rangers
• guerrillas
• artillerymen
• grunts
• commandos
• archers
• footmen
• musketeers
• gunners
• cannoneers
• recruits
• militiamen
• guardsmen
• carabineers
• crossbowmen
• pikemen
• GIs
• lancers
• spearmen
• jarheads
• Continentals
• paramilitaries
• irregulars
• conscripts
• champions
• minutemen
• draftees
• reservists
• enrollees
• mortarmen
• partisans
• warhorses
• Federals
• knights
• gendarmes
• lifers
• diggers
• counterguerrillas
• gallowglasses

Dissimilar Words

• civilians
• noncombatants

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of combatants

Aircraft, submarines and missiles have repeatedly challenged large surface combatants. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026

The Taiwanese navy is planning to invest heavily in large surface combatants, including a new 7,000-ton warship and as many as 12 3,000-ton light frigates. — Holmes Liao, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026

The Dominion battled right back with a pair of stereo suplexes, but Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor hit stereo clotheslines as all four combatants were laid out. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

In a campaign known as Operation Wandering Soul, US forces played recordings of eerie sounds and voices where combatants were fighting in the jungle. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026

The Korean War of 1950-1953 made the Cold War global, with China and the United States as direct combatants. — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

Hours of fierce fighting between government troops and militias that killed dozens of combatants in Somalia’s southwestern city of Baidoa also left at least four civilians dead and 98 others wounded, a hospital official said Tuesday. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

And right now, all that means is finding the rest of the enemy combatants. — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2026

The near flattening of Gaza by Israel – with the accompanying death toll of more than 70,000 Palestinians, both civilians and combatants – has captured world attention. — Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026