{s} siding with a specific group or cause; devoted, zealously supportive, biased; of or pertaining to guerilla fighters or guerilla warfare
A member of a resistance group operating within enemy lines using hit-and-run guerrilla tactics against occupying Germans Some partisan brigades (like Faye's) were affiliated with the Soviet Union
A devoted adherent to a cause generally nationalistic in nature; the adherent mayor may not be an armed combatant and is not normally a member of an organized military force
Partisans are ordinary people, rather than soldiers, who join together to fight enemy soldiers who are occupying their country. He was rescued by some Italian partisans