Definition of Battler

1. Noun. Someone who fights (or is fighting).


Definition of Battler

1. Noun. One who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general. ¹

2. Noun. (Australian dated) An itinerant worker or unemployed person. ¹

3. Noun. One who who works hard in the face of adversity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Battler

1. one that battles [n -S] - See also: battles

Medical Definition of Battler

1. A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. See: Battel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Battler

battlefleets
battlefront
battlefronts
battleful
battleground
battlegrounds
battlegroup
battlegroups
battleline
battlelines
battlement
battlemented
battlements
battleplan
battleplans
battler (current term)
battlers
battles
battleship
battleship-shaped curve
battleship-shaped curves
battleship grey
battleships
battlesight
battlesome
battlespace
battlespaces
battlewagon
battlewagons

Literary usage of Battler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Washington Close-ups: Intimate Views of Some Public Figures by Edward George Lowry (1921)
"... FOLLETTE: BOB THE battler MR. LA FOLLETTE missed the train. It is only in the rarest instances that time, tide, circumstances, the hour and the man keep ..."

2. The Spanish People: Their Origin, Growth, and Influence by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1911)
"... Cid—The Almoravides—Toledo the Christian capital—The Roman ritual adopted—Urraca of Castile and Leon and Alfonso the battler of Aragon— The Almohades. ..."

3. The British Merchant Service: Being a History of the British Mercantile by R. J. Cornewall-Jones (1898)
"... Transatlantic steam navigation—The Sirius—The Great Wettern—The British Queen and the President—The screw propeller—The Archimedes —The battler and the ..."

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