disputant

English

Etymology

From dispute ‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /dəˈspjutənt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspjuː.tənt/

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Noun

disputant (plural disputants)

1. A participant in a dispute.
   • 1893, Henry James, Collaboration [1]

     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.

Derived terms

• nondisputant

 

Adjective

disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)

1. Disputing; engaged in controversy.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 89, lines 217–220:

     [...] [T]here was found / Among the graveſt Rabbies diſputant / On points and queſtions fitting Moſes Chair, / Teaching not taught; [...]

Catalan

Verb

disputant

1. gerund of disputar

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

disputant

1. present participle of disputer

Further reading

• “disputant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

disputant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of disputō