The defender talked about his impressions after the match.
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Defender
Synonyms for "defender" (65 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (32)
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More general
6 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
161 translations across 61 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- mbrojtës noun (someone who defends)
- mbrojtës noun (sports term)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- παραστάτης noun (someone who defends)
Arabic
3 entries- مُدَافِع noun (someone who defends)
- مُدَافِع noun (sports term)
- مُنَاصِر noun (someone who defends)
Armenian
2 entries- պաշտպան noun (someone who defends)
- պաշտպան noun (sports term)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- müdafiəçi noun (someone who defends)
Belarusian
2 entries- абаро́нец noun (someone who defends)
- абаро́нца noun (someone who defends)
Bulgarian
4 entries- брани́тел noun (someone who defends)
- брани́телка noun (someone who defends)
- защи́тник noun (someone who defends)
- защи́тник noun (sports term)
Catalan
1 entries- defensor noun (sports term)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 後衛 /后卫 noun (sports term)
- 捍衛者 /捍卫者 noun (someone who defends)
- 辯護人 /辩护人 noun (someone who defends)
- 防守者 noun (someone who defends)
Czech
4 entries- obránce noun (someone who defends)
- obránce noun (a fighter)
- obránce noun (sports term)
- obránkyně noun (someone who defends)
Danish
4 entries- forsvar noun (someone who defends)
- forsvar noun (a fighter)
- forsvar noun (sports term)
- forsvarer noun (someone who defends)
Dutch
4 entries- verdediger noun (someone who defends)
- verdediger noun (a fighter)
- verdediger noun (sports term)
- verdedigster noun (someone who defends)
Estonian
1 entries- kaitsja noun (someone who defends)
Finnish
3 entries- puolustaja noun (someone who defends)
- puolustaja noun (a fighter)
- puolustaja noun (sports term)
French
3 entries- défenseur noun (someone who defends)
- défenseur noun (sports term)
- défenseuse noun (someone who defends)
Galician
1 entries- defensor noun (someone who defends)
Georgian
2 entries- დამცველი noun (someone who defends)
- მცველი noun (someone who defends)
German
3 entries- Verteidiger noun (someone who defends)
- Verteidiger noun (sports term)
- Verteidigerin noun (someone who defends)
Greek
1 entries- υπερασπιστής noun (someone who defends)
Hebrew
4 entries- מָגֵן noun (someone who defends)
- מָגֵן noun (sports term)
- מגנה noun (someone who defends)
- מגנה noun (sports term)
Hindi
1 entries- रक्षक noun (someone who defends)
Hungarian
2 entries- hátvéd noun (sports term)
- védő noun (someone who defends)
Icelandic
2 entries- varnarmaður noun (sports term)
- verjandi noun (someone who defends)
Indonesian
1 entries- bek noun (sports term)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- حامی noun (someone who defends)
- مُحافِظ noun (someone who defends)
- مُدافِع noun (someone who defends)
- پَدافَنْدْگَر noun (someone who defends)
Irish
1 entries- cosantóir noun (someone who defends)
Italian
3 entries- difenditrice noun (someone who defends)
- difensore noun (someone who defends)
- difensore noun (sports term)
Japanese
3 entries- ディフェンダー noun (sports term)
- 擁護者 noun (someone who defends)
- 防衛者 noun (someone who defends)
Kazakh
1 entries- қорғаушы noun (someone who defends)
Korean
4 entries- 디펜더 noun (sports term)
- 방어수 noun (sports term)
- 방어자 noun (someone who defends)
- 방위자 noun (someone who defends)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- коргоочу noun (someone who defends)
Ladin
1 entries- pech noun (sports term)
Latin
2 entries- dēfensor noun (someone who defends)
- tutor noun (someone who defends)
Latvian
4 entries- aizsardze noun (sports term)
- aizsargs noun (sports term)
- aizstāve noun (someone who defends)
- aizstāvis noun (someone who defends)
Lithuanian
2 entries- gynėja noun (someone who defends)
- gynėjas noun (someone who defends)
Macedonian
2 entries- бранител noun (someone who defends)
- бранителка noun (someone who defends)
Mongolian
1 entries- хамгаалагч noun (someone who defends)
Māori
2 entries- kaipare noun (someone who defends)
- kaiwawao noun (someone who defends)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- forsvarer noun (someone who defends)
- forsvarer noun (sports term)
- forsvarsspiller noun (sports term)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forsvarsspelar noun (sports term)
Persian
1 entries- مدافع noun (sports term)
Polish
3 entries- obrońca noun (someone who defends)
- obrońca noun (sports term)
- obrończyni noun (someone who defends)
Portuguese
4 entries- beque noun (sports term)
- defensor noun (someone who defends)
- defensor noun (a fighter)
- defensora noun (someone who defends)
Romanian
4 entries- apărătoare noun (someone who defends)
- apărător noun (someone who defends)
- apărător noun (sports term)
- fundaș noun (sports term)
Russian
4 entries- защи́тник noun (someone who defends)
- защи́тник noun (a fighter)
- защи́тник noun (sports term)
- защи́тница noun (someone who defends)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cluicheadair-dìon noun (sports term)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- branitèljica noun (someone who defends)
- branitèljica noun (a fighter)
- brànitelj noun (someone who defends)
- brànitelj noun (a fighter)
Slovak
3 entries- obranca noun (someone who defends)
- obranca noun (sports term)
- obrankyňa noun (someone who defends)
Slovene
2 entries- branilec noun (someone who defends)
- branilka noun (someone who defends)
Spanish
2 entries- defensor noun (someone who defends)
- defensora noun (someone who defends)
Swahili
4 entries- difenda noun (sports term)
- mtetezi noun (someone who defends)
- mtetezi noun (a fighter)
- mtetezi noun (sports term)
Swedish
4 entries- back noun (sports term)
- försvarare noun (someone who defends)
- försvarare noun (a fighter)
- försvarare noun (sports term)
Tajik
4 entries- мудофиакунанда noun (someone who defends)
- ҳимоякунанда noun (someone who defends)
- ҳимоятгар noun (someone who defends)
- ҳимоятгар noun (sports term)
Tatar
1 entries- саклаучы noun (someone who defends)
Turkish
2 entries- savunucu noun (someone who defends)
- savunucu noun (sports term)
Turkmen
1 entries- goragçy noun (someone who defends)
Ukrainian
3 entries- захисни́к noun (someone who defends)
- захисни́к noun (sports term)
- захисни́ця noun (someone who defends)
Urdu
2 entries- مُحافِظ noun (someone who defends)
- مُدافِع noun (someone who defends)
Uyghur
1 entries- قوغدىغۇچى noun (someone who defends)
Uzbek
2 entries- himoya noun (someone who defends)
- himoyachi noun (someone who defends)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hậu vệ noun (sports term)
- người bảo vệ noun (someone who defends)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
If you don't find an attorney we will order a public defender for you.
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Tom is a public defender.
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The commentator began yelling when the referee gave the defender a second yellow card.
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