- an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
- a member of a party of light or irregular troops engaged in harassing an enemy, especially a member of a guerrilla band engaged in fighting or sabotage against an occupying army.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of partisans; partial to a specific party, person, etc.: partisan politics.
- of, relating to, or carried on by military partisans or guerrillas.
- a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
- an adherent or devotee of a cause, party, etc
- a member of an armed resistance group within occupied territory, esp in Italy or the Balkans in World War II
- (as modifier)
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a partisan
- relating to or excessively devoted to one party, faction, etc; one-sided
- a spear or pike with two opposing axe blades or spikes
