Antonym: challenger. Similar words: defendant, offender, defense, defensive, gender, render, tender, independent. Meaning: [-də] 
n. 1. a person who cares for persons or property 2. a fighter who holds out against attack.
n. 1. a person who cares for persons or property 2. a fighter who holds out against attack. 
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181. The Rossonero defender turns 37 today and was born in Orago, province of Varese, Aprile 24, 1966.
182. The fund acted far too long as a creditor collection agency, a defender of the dollar as the sole reserve currency and even as a handmaiden to US sectoral interests in trade policy.
183. The Czech Republic international is coming off contract at the Dutch giants and Juve chief Alessio Secco is preparing a contract offer to table the defender and his management next month.
184. Walton also plays better defense. He not a good man-to-man defender but he is an efficient team defender.
More similar words: defendant, offender, defense, defensive, gender, render, tender, independent, independence, wander, under, undergo, founder, commander, under way, reminder, fall under, come under, tendency, extended, vendetta, wanderlust, undermine, undertake, understand, dependent, underlying, rendezvous, under control, undergraduate.