aggressor
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin aggressorder. English aggressor Derived from Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”).
Definitions
The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression
The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
- Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, 10 years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively for the defeat of aggression. Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today.
a fictional state created by the United States Army for maneuver and military exercise…
a fictional state created by the United States Army for maneuver and military exercise purposes in the 1950's
a citizen/subject of the fictional Aggressor state
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for aggressor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA