Synonyms of warrior

warrior

noun

ˈwȯr-yər

as in soldier

a person engaged in military service

a program of tough training and discipline that turns untried civilians into warriors

Synonyms & Similar Words

• soldier
• fighter
• raider
• marine
• trooper
• ranger
• veteran
• dragoon
• serviceman
• legionary
• legionnaire
• knight
• man-at-arms
• recruit
• musketeer
• dogface
• Confederate
• combatant
• partisan
• regular
• infantryman
• cavalryman
• archer
• guerilla
• cavalier
• rifleman
• champion
• conscript
• commando
• guerrilla
• doughboy
• guardsman
• cannoneer
• artilleryman
• Continental
• foot soldier
• lancer
• paramilitary
• spearman
• partizan
• grunt
• militiaman
• gunner
• servicewoman
• cuirassier
• GI
• warhorse
• jarhead
• footman
• carabinier
• crossbowman
• irregular
• minuteman
• Federal
• counterguerrilla
• pikeman
• carabineer
• reservist
• counterguerilla
• draftee
• enrollee
• mortarman
• noncombatant
• digger
• gendarme
• lifer
• gallowglass

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• civilian

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of warrior

There is no myth or epic for the Trump situation; no surviving sequel to the Iliad in which Greek warriors openly cling to the wooden horse, brandishing their weapons and declaring death to the Trojans, and yet half of the Trojans want to drag the statue into the city anyway. —Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024

Sienna has been chosen as a warrior of light, with literal angel wings. —Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

Writer/director Damien Leone introduces Sienna’s father Michael (Jason Patric), who’s seen in flashbacks with his young daughter to give depth to her warrior angel side, and nods to the greater mythology. —Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024

In Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, players navigate a cold, dark ninth-century Iceland in the often wet shoes of the Pictish warrior Senua on her second adventure in the third-person action-horror franchise. —Andrew Webster, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2024