Usually means: Individuals actively engaged in fighting.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word combatants:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. combatants: Merriam-Webster
  2. combatants: Collins English Dictionary
  3. combatants: Vocabulary.com
  4. Combatants, combatant's, combatants: Wordnik
  5. combatants: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. combatants: Wiktionary
  7. combatants: Dictionary.com
  8. Combatants: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. combatants: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Combatants: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Combatants: Legal dictionary

(Note: See combatant as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (combatant)

noun:  A person engaged in combat, often armed.
adjective:  Contending; disposed to contend.
adjective:  Involving combat.
adjective:  Alternative form of combattant (“in heraldry: in a fighting position”) [(heraldry) In fighting position; said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.]
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