aggressor

noun
/əˈɡɹɛsə/UK/əˈɡɹɛsɚ/CA

Etymology

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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

  3. a citizen/subject of the fictional Aggressor state

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA