Usually means: Aggressively active for a cause.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. militant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. militant: Merriam-Webster
  3. militant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. militant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. militant: Collins English Dictionary
  6. militant: Vocabulary.com
  7. Militant, militant: Wordnik
  8. militant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. militant: Wiktionary
  10. militant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. militant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. militant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Militant, militant: Dictionary.com
  14. militant (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. militant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Militant (Trotskyist group), Militant (disambiguation), Militant (word), Militant, The Militant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Militant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. militant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. militant: Rhymezone
  20. militant, militant, militant, militant(e) (m/f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. militant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. militant: FreeDictionary.org
  23. militant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. militant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. militant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. militant: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. militant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. militant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See militantly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
adjective:  Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative.
noun:  (obsolete) A soldier, a combatant.
noun:  An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
noun:  (specifically, communism) someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics.

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