paladin
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Definition of paladin
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Synonyms & Antonyms for paladin
Synonyms
advocate, advocator, apostle, backer, booster, champion, espouser, exponent, expounder, friend, gospeler (or gospeller), herald, hierophant, high priest, promoter, proponent, protagonist, supporter, true believer, tub-thumper, white knight
Antonyms
adversary, antagonist, opponent
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The more productive theater of the Chicken Sandwich War has played out among Twitter's paladins, with random users dragging Bojangles' and invoking the unassailable opinions of the ultimate chicken sandwich deciders: their grandmothers. — Aj Willingham, CNN, "Brands are beefing about who has the best chicken sandwich, and it's a mess," 20 Aug. 2019 Her first character was a priest of Mystra in the 2nd Edition, and her favorite character is a 3.5 Edition half-dragon monk that is now a paladin. — Justin L. Mack, Indianapolis Star, "WWE Superstar Ember Moon is coming to Gen Con to play Dungeons & Dragons," 5 Aug. 2018 In Book One: A Journey Through the Heavens, a hidden celestial kingdom faces its greatest adversary as a paladin from beyond the blue uncovers a secret that could unravel their very existence. — Tara Knight, The Root, "Beyond the Blue," 13 May 2018 In short order, this and his agrarian subject matter combined with a national mood of restive nostalgia to make Wood a paladin—routinely yoked with the Missourian Thomas Hart Benton and the Kansan John Steuart Curry—of anti-modernist regionalism. — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, "Beyond “American Gothic”," 5 Mar. 2018 Vampire Weekend paladin Rostam Batmanglij, and Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr. — Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, "On Haim’s New Album Something to Tell You, the Band of Sisters Is Better Than Ever," 10 July 2017 The author provides valuable information about John Quincy Adams as an antislavery paladin, but his treatment of Lincoln constitutes a superficial, misleading and often inaccurate caricature. — Michael Burlingame, WSJ, "Lincoln’s Road to Emancipation," 4 July 2017 Once in the lead, the Bulldogs' Burns shut the door on the Paladins and snapped Furman's 11-game SoCon winning streak. — Samford Athletics, AL.com, "Samford baseball travels to Tennessee for pivotal weekend series at ETSU," 11 May 2017 The game puts a nice slant on the classic character tropes offering speedy ranged fighter the Gunslinger, the tank-like Savage, the magic-using Alchitect and the paladin-style Vindicator. — WIRED, "Heroes of Ruin Is Flawed but Fantastic," 19 July 2012These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'paladin.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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