Partisan definition in authentic context about military terms in English with images and short passages to practice reading comprehension at the same time. Improve your advanced vocabulary in context with images with the word, partisan.
/ˌpɑː.tɪˈzæn/ (adj & noun)
Partisan definition
Noun: someone who is an advocate of a political party, person, principle, country, etc. very passionately, fan, biased supporter – (in a defeated country) an agent of the secret armed forces who clandestinely tries to fight against the enemy who’s currently in charge of the country, resistant fighter
Adjective: showing biased and unreasonable support, prejudiced, opinionated, narrow-minded, bigoted, partial
Example
A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity. The term can apply to the field element of resistance movements.
Source of example: https://en.wikipedia.org/
Antonyms
Parts of speech
Noun: partisanship