"complainant" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /kəmˈpleɪnənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-complainant.wav Forms: complainants [plural]
Etymology: From Old French complaignant, present participle of complaindre. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|complaignant}} Old French complaignant Head templates: {{en-noun}} complainant (plural complainants)
  1. One who makes complaint, one who complains.
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  2. (law) The party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff. Categories (topical): Law, People Synonyms (litigation; in civil proceedings): claimant [law] Translations (plaintiff): тъжител (tǎžitel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ищец (ištec) [masculine] (Bulgarian), plendanto (Esperanto), kantaja (Finnish), plaignant [masculine] (French), მოსარჩელე (mosarčele) (Georgian), felperes (Hungarian), gearánach [masculine] (Irish), gearánaí [masculine] (Irish), éilitheoir [masculine] (Irish), kaiwhakapae (Maori), powód [masculine] (Polish), исте́ц (istéc) [masculine] (Russian), жалилац [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), подносилац жалбе [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), žalilac [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), podnosilac žalbe [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), podnosioc žalbe [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), demandante [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), querellante [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), mlalamishi (Swahili), klagande [common-gender] (Swedish), ఫిర్యాది (phiryādi) (Telugu), achwynydd [masculine] (Welsh), achwynwr [masculine] (Welsh)
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  3. (law) An alleged victim in a criminal investigation or trial. Categories (topical): Law Synonyms (in criminal proceedings): plaintiff [law]
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: complainaunt [obsolete, rare] Derived forms: countercomplainant

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "complainaunt"
    }
  ],
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    "complainant"
  ],
  "word": "complainant"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "litigation; in civil or criminal proceedings",
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word": "defendant"
    },
    {
      "sense": "litigation; in civil proceedings",
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word": "respondent"
    }
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swahili translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Telugu translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "countercomplainant"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "complaignant"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French complaignant",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French complaignant, present participle of complaindre.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "complainants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "complainant (plural complainants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "1708-1714 Jeremy Collier, Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain\nEager complainants […] in the dispute."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 August, “Let's have plain speaking”, in Modern Railways, page 73:",
          "text": "The Southern Region takes, in the main, a candid line with its public. [...] An ill-informed attempt to blackguard the railway publicly is likely to see the complainant put politely—but very firmly—in his place.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Ken Jennings, “Benchmarks”, in Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:",
          "text": "It's hard for Americans to understand the patriotism that can get bound up in place-names. We're a young country. We're also accustomed, in our cockeyed cowboy fashion, to everything else revolving around us, so we can afford to let slide the fact that, say, the Gulf of Mexico isn't called the Gulf of America. (Although, according to John Hebert, that is the pet issue of one frequent complainant to the Board on Geographic Names.)",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "One who makes complaint, one who complains."
      ],
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          "complaint",
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        [
          "complain",
          "complain"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff."
      ],
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          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "party",
          "party"
        ],
        [
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          "bring"
        ],
        [
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        ],
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        ],
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          "plaintiff",
          "plaintiff"
        ]
      ],
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        "(law) The party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      "glosses": [
        "An alleged victim in a criminal investigation or trial."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) An alleged victim in a criminal investigation or trial."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/kəmˈpleɪnənt/"
    },
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    {
      "sense": "litigation; in civil proceedings",
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word": "claimant"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in criminal proceedings",
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word": "plaintiff"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "complainaunt"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tǎžitel",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тъжител"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ištec",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ищец"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "word": "plendanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "word": "kantaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plaignant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mosarčele",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "word": "მოსარჩელე"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "word": "felperes"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gearánach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gearánaí"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "éilitheoir"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "word": "kaiwhakapae"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "powód"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "istéc",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "исте́ц"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "жалилац"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "подносилац жалбе"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "žalilac"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "podnosilac žalbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "podnosioc žalbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "demandante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "querellante"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "word": "mlalamishi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "klagande"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "phiryādi",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "word": "ఫిర్యాది"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "achwynydd"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "plaintiff",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "achwynwr"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "complainant"
  ],
  "word": "complainant"
}

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