Go and read, please, what this firebrand is writing to me!
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Firebrand
//ˈfaɪɚ.bɹænd//
Synonyms for "firebrand" (117 found)
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Related words (58)
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2 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
89 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- شُعْلَة noun (torch or other burning stick)
Armenian
1 entries- խանձող noun (torch or other burning stick)
Belarusian
2 entries- галаве́шка noun (torch or other burning stick)
- галаўня́ noun (torch or other burning stick)
Bulgarian
2 entries- главня́ noun (torch or other burning stick)
- подстрека́тел noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
Catalan
1 entries- brandó noun (torch or other burning stick)
Danish
1 entries- fakkel noun (torch or other burning stick)
Dutch
4 entries- fakkel noun (torch or other burning stick)
- onruststoker noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- oproerkraaier noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- stokebrand noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
Finnish
2 entries- palopuhuja noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- soihtu noun (torch or other burning stick)
French
4 entries- agitateur noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- brandon noun (torch or other burning stick)
- tison noun (torch or other burning stick)
- torche noun (torch or other burning stick)
Friulian
1 entries- stiç noun (torch or other burning stick)
Galician
4 entries- axitador noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- brandón noun (torch or other burning stick)
- chamizo noun (torch or other burning stick)
- facho noun (torch or other burning stick)
Georgian
1 entries- მუგუზალი noun (torch or other burning stick)
German
4 entries- Aufrührer noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- Aufwiegler noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- Radikalinski noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- Rädelsführer noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
Hebrew
2 entries- אוּד noun (torch or other burning stick)
- מחרחר noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
Hungarian
3 entries- bajkeverő noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- felforgató noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- lázító noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
Irish
1 entries- aithinne noun (torch or other burning stick)
Italian
2 entries- tizzo noun (torch or other burning stick)
- tizzone noun (torch or other burning stick)
Latin
2 entries- titio noun (torch or other burning stick)
- torris noun (torch or other burning stick)
Middle English
1 entries- brand noun (torch or other burning stick)
Māori
4 entries- motumotu noun (torch or other burning stick)
- mōmotu noun (torch or other burning stick)
- mōunga noun (torch or other burning stick)
- ngotungotu noun (torch or other burning stick)
Norwegian
1 entries- fakkel noun (torch or other burning stick)
Old English
1 entries- brand noun (torch or other burning stick)
Old Irish
1 entries- gorn noun (torch or other burning stick)
Polish
4 entries- głownia noun (torch or other burning stick)
- pochodnia noun (torch or other burning stick)
- podżegacz noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- podżegaczka noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
Portuguese
3 entries- brandão noun (torch or other burning stick)
- facho noun (torch or other burning stick)
- tocha noun (torch or other burning stick)
Russian
4 entries- голове́шка noun (torch or other burning stick)
- головня́ noun (torch or other burning stick)
- зачи́нщик noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- зачи́нщица noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
Spanish
4 entries- agitador noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- instigador noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- tea noun (torch or other burning stick)
- teda noun (torch or other burning stick)
Swedish
4 entries- brandfackla noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- brandfackla noun (torch or other burning stick)
- fyrsticka noun (argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary)
- fyrsticka noun (torch or other burning stick)
Tagalog
2 entries- agipo noun (torch or other burning stick)
- dupong noun (torch or other burning stick)
Tarifit
2 entries- asfeḍ noun (torch or other burning stick)
- tirjet noun (torch or other burning stick)
Telugu
1 entries- కొరవి noun (torch or other burning stick)
Ukrainian
4 entries- голове́шка noun (torch or other burning stick)
- головня́ noun (torch or other burning stick)
- недо́гарок noun (torch or other burning stick)
- ґалаґа́н noun (torch or other burning stick)
Unami
1 entries- pëlitay noun (torch or other burning stick)
Sample sentences
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This candidate used to be left-wing firebrand.
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Charlie Kirk was a far-right firebrand.
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The member of the college's Communist League was a firebrand who would launch a sit-in or protest march at a moment's notice.
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