How do you use Traitor in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like trickster or cheater, plus the exact meaning.
Traitor meaning
- Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to their defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished.
- Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country.
- One who betrays any confidence or trust.
Synonyms of Traitor
Using Traitor
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to their defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished. | Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country. | One who betrays any confidence or trust.
- Useful related words include: treasonist, trickster, cheater, cheat.
- In the example corpus, traitor often appears in combinations such as: as traitor, traitor and, the traitor.
Context around Traitor
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Traitor
- In this selection, "traitor" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, labeled, real, race, ash and cody stand out and add context to how "traitor" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a confederate traitor as his and a race traitor to boot. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "traitor" sits close to words such as accountants, admirable and assembling, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with traitor
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He is a traitor; he is a big time traitor. (10 words)
An American agent, a traitor, and an agent of foreign powers. (11 words)
Four months on, John is still furious with Steward, branding him a "traitor". (13 words)
Following the release of her album Sour in 2021, Rodrigo has also become the first female solo artist to claim three simultaneous UK top five singles with Good 4 U, Deja Vu and Traitor, according to The Official Charts Company. (40 words)
A Canadian-Armenian member of the opposition Dashnaktsutyun party claimed that Simonian ordered his bodyguards to overpower him and then spat in his face after he branded the latter a “traitor” on a street in downtown Yerevan on Sunday. (39 words)
Even defending the of a great or once-great filmmaker or actor—it could be —who has either committed or been accused of committing a heinous act is enough to get you branded a traitor. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Traitor Ash referred back to an exchange at breakfast, when Sonja abruptly asked if she was a Traitor.
Brexit: Boris Johnson labeled 'traitor' to England by senior EU figures'The real traitor is.
He is a traitor; he is a big time traitor.
Wait a minute, he’s a traitor for not wanting to be a globalist, but he’s a traitor for being an American nationalist.
A Canadian-Armenian member of the opposition Dashnaktsutyun party claimed that Simonian ordered his bodyguards to overpower him and then spat in his face after he branded the latter a “traitor” on a street in downtown Yerevan on Sunday.
An American agent, a traitor, and an agent of foreign powers.
And, worst of all, she's a Conservative woman of colour — therefore a race traitor, to boot.
And yet Trump in all of his infinite wisdom more or less called McCain a traitor.
A popular discussion centered around who was the supposed traitor in U.A. High School.
Even defending the of a great or once-great filmmaker or actor—it could be —who has either committed or been accused of committing a heinous act is enough to get you branded a traitor.
First announced last July, The Walking Dead: Betrayal has been likened to it will require players to find the traitor among their ranks.
Following the release of her album Sour in 2021, Rodrigo has also become the first female solo artist to claim three simultaneous UK top five singles with Good 4 U, Deja Vu and Traitor, according to The Official Charts Company.
Four months on, John is still furious with Steward, branding him a "traitor".
He did not mention Prigozhin by name, but clearly called him a traitor who led "loyal" Wagner "patriots" astray.
He objected in 2003 to what he called Israel’s “illegal and immoral” attacks on civilian Palestinians then, only to be stamped as a traitor by Israel’s far-right politicians.
However, when Cirie Fields and Christian de la Torre asked him to join them as traitors after fellow traitor Cody Calafiore was banished, he agreed.
If they learn they have a traitor in the ranks, they could become even more unhinged.
It sounded as though the agency had discovered the suspected traitor within its ranks on its own.
Johnson’s name is a perfect one to replace that of a Confederate traitor, as his story shows not just outstanding courage but the ways the nation failed Black service members.
Kieran made it to the final of the first season of the show, when he famously outed Wilf as a traitor while exiting.
Common combinations with traitor
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as traitor 38×
- traitor and 20×
- the traitor 16×
- traitor to 14×
- him traitor 12×
- traitor in 10×
- traitor for 8×
- and traitor 8×
- traitor who 8×
- of traitor 7×