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Definition of disputant in English English dictionary
- A participant in a dispute
One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.
- {n} a disputer, reasoner, controvertist
- One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition
- {i} one who disputes, one who debates
- a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
- Disputing; engaged in controversy
- A disputant
- controverser
- disputants
- plural of disputant
Related Terms
disputant
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dis·pu·tantPronunciation
Etymology
() dispute + -antResimler
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