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traitor (s) (noun), traitors (pl)
1. Someone who betrays a trust or who acts as a collaborationist for a treasonous cause: The traitor plead guilty to treason in exchange for banishment from his country.
2. Etymology: from Old French tradicion; from Latin traditionem, "delivery, surrender, a handing down"; from traditus, past participle of tradere, "to deliver, to hand over"; from trans-, "over" + dare, "to give".
This entry is located in the following units: dat-, dos-, dot-, dow-, don-, dit- (page 7) -or; -our (primarily British) (page 14)