We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of deserter in English
Member of the armed forces who deserts, abandons a duty or post without permission and with the intention of not returning.
Related terms
Usage of deserter in English
1
Aridius thereupon sought Clovis, in the guise of a deserter from Gondebaud.
2
Upon the line of baseness,-thedeserter is placed next to the traitor.
3
The deserter stopped for an instant, and then leaped on the horse.
4
The fellow Dupont quarrelled with and shot was a deserter named Connors.
5
The king proscribes me, and brands me as a traitor and deserter.
6
One is that their support is apt to go with the deserter.
7
He returned to the cottage and explained where the deserter was hiding.
8
She had called him a deserter, as the other women had done.
9
The lowest form of life that walks or crawls is a deserter.
10
A hunted deserter could not have spied more wildly after his pursuers.
11
The butcher, who was an ex-Spahl, declared that he was a deserter.
12
You can say you shot a deserter, or that I attacked you.
13
Declared a deserter, he saw slight chance of promotion to military glory.
14
Gabriel Faa, besides being a gipsy, was a vagrant and a deserter.
15
Rudy here, this old deserter, he's been stuck on it for years.
16
I'm not obliged to receive back a deserter unless it suits me.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Deserter through the time
Deserter across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common