Search Result for "fifth_columnist":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader;
[syn: fifth columnist, saboteur]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

columnist \col"um*nist\, n. a journalist who writes or edits a regularly scheduled column[8] in a periodical, usually in editorial style; a type of editorialist. [RP] fifth columnist see fifth columnist in the vocabulary.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fifth columnist n 1: a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader [syn: fifth columnist, saboteur]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "fifth columnist": Trojan horse, apostate, backslider, bolter, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, crypto, defector, deserter, fellow traveler, fifth column, fraternizer, mugwump, proselyte, quisling, recidivist, recreant, renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, runagate, saboteur, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, security risk, separatist, strikebreaker, subversive, tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, underground