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# partisan

«partisan» in Mova's school dictionary: **Strongly supporting one political party or side, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective; noun (a partisan, partisans)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (adjective) Strongly supporting one political party or side, often without being fair to the other side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/#m1)

2) (noun) A strong supporter of a party, person or idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/#m2)

3) (noun, history) A fighter in a secret army who fights against soldiers who have taken over their country, especially in the Second World War. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship, news and media lessons: partisan news shows only one side, so pupils learn to check several sources. «Non-partisan» or «bipartisan» means not taking sides or supported by both sides. In history lessons, partisans in Europe fought the Nazi occupiers from forests and mountains.

### examples

- The newspaper's report was very partisan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/#x1)
- A good referee is not partisan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/#x2)
- The partisans hid in the forest and blew up railway lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/#x3)
- Bipartisan laws are supported by both main parties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/#x4)
- The crowd was partisan and cheered only for the home team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/#x5)
- The judge must be non-partisan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/#x6)

### note

Adjective and countable noun. Pronounced «PAR-ti-zan» or «par-ti-ZAN». Related: partisanship (taking sides). Opposites: impartial, neutral, non-partisan. «Partisan» comes from «party».

### In the corpora

- [Partisan means strongly supporting one side; bias means leaning towards one side instead of being fair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «partisan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partisan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.