A member of a resistance group operating within enemy lines using hit-and-run guerrilla tactics against occupying Germans Some partisan brigades (like Faye's) were affiliated with the Soviet Union
A devoted adherent to a cause generally nationalistic in nature; the adherent mayor may not be an armed combatant and is not normally a member of an organized military force
Partisans are ordinary people, rather than soldiers, who join together to fight enemy soldiers who are occupying their country. He was rescued by some Italian partisans
Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal
Someone who is partisan strongly supports a particular person or cause, often without thinking carefully about the matter. He is clearly too partisan to be a referee
a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries a fervent and even militant proponent of something devoted to a cause or party