Combatant and Mercenary

Combatant

Combatant noun - Someone who fights (or is fighting).

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Mercenary and combatant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mercenary" instead a noun "Combatant".

Nearby Words: combat, combative, combating

Mercenary noun - A person hired to fight for another country than their own.

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Combatant and mercenary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Combatant" instead a noun "Mercenary".

Nearby Word: mercenarily

fellow	fellow combatant	fellow mercenary
human	human combatant	human mercenary
old	old combatant	old mercenary
female	female combatant	female mercenary
Other adjectives: best, average, single, brutal, powerful, male, serious, dangerous, trained, experienced, skilled, former, ruthless, formidable, random, badass.

He also was a skilled unarmed combatant from working as a mercenary, since he had to hide his magic from the Templars.

Source: Video Game / Dragon Age II
However, the survivors essentially wiped out the Others in the season 3 finale, just as the third combatant, a freighter with a mercenary team sent to kill everyone on the island, arrived.

Source: Mêlée à Trois
In the Wolverine story The Adamantium Men, Wolverine and his rival combatant (part of a twelve-man mercenary team, employed by Blackguard and made to emulate Wolverine with laser claws and nanite healing factors) are busy fighting in the streets of San Francisco.

Source: Even Evil Has Standards / Comic Books

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