Usually means: Participant or protagonist in struggle.
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  1. Agonistes: Wordnik
  2. agonistes: Wiktionary
  3. agonistes: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  4. agonistes: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  5. Agonistes: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (agonistes)

▸ noun:  A person engaged in a struggle.

Similar:
agonistarch, agonizer, struggler, contendent, contender, battler, encounterer, crusader, fighter, withstander, more...

Opposite:
antagonist, protagonist, ally, friend, helper

Phrases:
Samson Agonistes, more...

Adjectives:
greek, unfinished, dramatic, later, fragmentary, own, brother, other

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Similar:
agonistarch, agonizer, struggler, contendent, contender, battler, encounterer, crusader, fighter, withstander, more...

Opposite:
antagonist, protagonist, ally, friend, helper

Phrases:
Samson Agonistes, more...

Adjectives:
greek, unfinished, dramatic, later, fragmentary, own, brother, other



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