traitor

noun

ˈtrā-tər How to pronounce traitor (audio)
Definition of traitornext
as in betrayer
one who betrays a trust or an allegiance accused by her family of being a traitor when she sold their traditionally animal-friendly business to a competitor known to use animals for testing its products

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Recent Examples of traitor He was stabbed in the back, quite literally, by Night Watch traitors, but revived by a witch using the power of the Lord of Light. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2026 Queen Seymour is on the run as a traitor, having literally sunk one palace, while Queen Howard practices spycraft right under her husband’s nose. — Literary Hub, 1 June 2026 The king refused to look at it, and issued the Proclamation of Rebellion, declaring the colonists traitors and hiring 30,000 German mercenaries to help crush them. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 July 2026 Keep your actual and suspected traitors closer – the non-loyal, uncommitted, secretive, suspicious, dishonest, deceitful, chronically negative, and regularly undermining. — Peter D. Banko, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for traitor
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  1. betrayer
  2. snake
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  • Then go ahead and depict the country’s prime minister as the betrayer of Christ.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
  • Lesch plays the savior’s anguished betrayer not as an intellectual equal who fiercely debates him and loses all patience with the movement.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
Definition of betrayer
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  • There, students can see animals including snakes, axolotls, tiger salamanders, turtles, toads, frogs, tarantulas, millipedes, bunnies and owls, Wieser said.
    — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026
  • These birds will eventually be released on Palmyra Atoll, a brown snake-free island in the Pacific Ocean.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of snake

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