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Meanings of deserter in English

Portuguese
apóstata
Catalan
apòstata

A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

        apóstata
        Portuguese
        desertor
        Catalan
        desertor

        A person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)

              desertor
              Russian
              дезертир
              Portuguese
              desertor
              Spanish
              desertor

              Member of the armed forces who deserts, abandons a duty or post without permission and with the intention of not returning.

                      Related terms
                      дезертир
                      Usage of deserter in English
                      1
                      Aridius thereupon sought Clovis, in the guise of a deserter from Gondebaud.
                      Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French
                      2
                      Upon the line of baseness,-thedeserter is placed next to the traitor.
                      Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
                      3
                      The deserter stopped for an instant, and then leaped on the horse.
                      A Lieutenant at Eighteen
                      4
                      The fellow Dupont quarrelled with and shot was a deserter named Connors.
                      Molly McDonald: A Tale of the Old Frontier
                      5
                      The king proscribes me, and brands me as a traitor and deserter.
                      Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
                      6
                      One is that their support is apt to go with the deserter.
                      Happiness and Marriage
                      7
                      He returned to the cottage and explained where the deserter was hiding.
                      Depths
                      8
                      She had called him a deserter, as the other women had done.
                      The Burial of the Guns
                      9
                      The lowest form of life that walks or crawls is a deserter.
                      The Sword of Shannara
                      10
                      A hunted deserter could not have spied more wildly after his pursuers.
                      Invisible Links
                      11
                      The butcher, who was an ex-Spahl, declared that he was a deserter.
                      The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2
                      12
                      You can say you shot a deserter, or that I attacked you.
                      The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tale...
                      13
                      Declared a deserter, he saw slight chance of promotion to military glory.
                      Heroes of Modern Europe
                      14
                      Gabriel Faa, besides being a gipsy, was a vagrant and a deserter.
                      Red Cap Tales, Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of t...
                      15
                      Rudy here, this old deserter, he's been stuck on it for years.
                      Boneshaker
                      16
                      I'm not obliged to receive back a deserter unless it suits me.
                      Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
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                      Translations for deserter
                      Spanish
                      desertor
                      Deserter through the time
                      Deserter across language varieties
                      United Kingdom
                      Common
                      United States of America
                      Less common