[
UK
/pˈɑːtɪzən/
]
NOUN
- a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries
- an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity
ADJECTIVE
- devoted to a cause or party
How To Use partizan In A Sentence
- I am a Partizan supporter, but my heart is split up between Valencia and Madrid.
- Successive home defeats by Manchester United, Partizan Belgrade and Birmingham inside eight days left the 70-year-old down in the dumps and scratching his head.
- -- The obsidional, or _siege pieces_, struck by the partizans of this monarch during the civil wars, are extremely interesting, and, with the exception of those coined at Newark, are all rare. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
- Macaulay here speaks like a heated haranguer or Parliamentary partizan, not like an historian or a critic. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad.
- A scarlet tunic with gold embroidery, white ruff, and my tall, heavy, pointy partizan in my hand. Read the winner of the 247 tale competition
- Are we as a bipartizan society to be forever prohibited from declaring someone from the other party’s actions to be wrong if ANYONE from our own party EVER did ANYTHING remotely similar? Gaaaaaah: An Open Thread « Whatever
- Might I suggest that if we are considering seriously rearranging our economy, we might want to pull this research from obviously partizan hands and actually spend some dollars on independent review by engineers and scientists who are currently not receiving “climate funds” and would be a truly independent review ? The Volokh Conspiracy » ClimateGate Fallout Continues
- Partizan crept into things and fashioned the best two chances of the first half. Times, Sunday Times
- Having now felt their strength, they next proceeded to renew a part of the committee of General Safety, several of its members being inculpated as partizans of Robespierre, and though this Committee had become entirely subordinate to that of Public Welfare, yet its functions were too important for it to be neglected, more especially as they comprised a very favourite branch of the republican government, that of issuing writs of arrest at pleasure. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
- He was one of the vital squad members in Partizan's last year quest to the double crown.