defender
//dɪˈfɛndə(ɹ)//
Forms
- Plural
- defenders
Definitions
1.Someone who defends people or property.
2.One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.
3.A fighter who seeks to repel an attack.
4.A defendant in a civil action.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4805
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English defender, deffender, defendere, defendour, defendoure, partly from Anglo-Norman defendour
From Old French defendëor; partly from Middle English defenden + -ere, equivalent to defend + -er.