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Definition of belligerent noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

belligerent

noun
 
/bəˈlɪdʒərənt/
 
/bəˈlɪdʒərənt/
 (formal)
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  1. a country or group that is fighting a warTopics War and conflictc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin belligerant- ‘waging war’, from the verb belligerare, from bellum ‘war’.
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