Usually means: Strongly supportive of a party.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. partisan: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. partisan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. partisan, partisan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. partisan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. partisan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Partisan, partisan: Wordnik
  7. partisan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. partisan: Wiktionary
  9. partisan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. partisan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. partisan: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Partisan, partisan: Dictionary.com
  13. partisan (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. partisan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Partisan (Yugoslavia), Partisan (disambiguation), Partisan (film), Partisan (military), Partisan (political), Partisan (politics), Partisan (weapon), Partisan, The Partisan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Partisan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. partisan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. partisan: Rhymezone
  19. Partisan, partisan (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. partisan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. partisan: Free Dictionary
  22. partisan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. partisan: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Partisan (political), partisan: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. partisan: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Partisan: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See partisanly as well.)

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noun:  An adherent to a party or faction.
noun:  A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
noun:  A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
noun:  (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
adjective:  Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops.
adjective:  Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party.
adjective:  Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause.
noun:  (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting.
noun:  (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.

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