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

If a foreign state treated these law enforcement operations as armed conflict, the private sector employees running them would not be combatants under international law and would not have POW or other protections. — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 19 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

This mode is also another chance to reinterpret Marvel through an anime lens, this time turning the mighty combatants into adorable, chibi versions of themselves. — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026

Far from stabilizing Lebanon, the multinational forces soon became targets and combatants in the widening war. — Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026

Maybe it’s supposed to end this way — as admirers who became combatants, who bonded as only emperors can, then became close. — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

Rheinmetall said this combination gives the frigate a level of battlespace awareness and fire-control capability typically associated with much larger surface combatants. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026