defense
See also: défense
English
Etymology
From French défense, itself from Late Latin dēfensa (“protection”). Displaced native Old English bewering.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɛns/
Audio (US) (file) - (sports): (US, often) IPA(key): /ˈdiːˌfɛns/
- Rhymes: -ɛns
Noun
defense (countable and uncountable, plural defenses) (American spelling)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:defense
Antonyms
- offense
- (law) prosecution
Derived terms
- affirmative defense
- antidefense
- attack is the best form of defense
- chemical defense
- Chewbacca defense
- civil defense
- defense attorney
- defense in abatement
- defense in depth
- defense lawyer
- defense mechanism
- defense wound
- defense-independent pitching statistics
- defenseless
- defensive
- defensiveness
- eco-defense
- ecodefense
- gay panic defense
- homosexual panic defense
- man-to-man defense
- Matrix defense
- Nuremberg defense
- orbital defense platform
- Pac-Man defense
- passive defense
- personal defense weapon
- prevent defense
- self-defense
- self-defense wound
- Shaggy defense
- space defense
- special defense
- the best defense is a good offense
- thesis defense
- tower defense
- zone defense
Translations
action of protecting from attack
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anything employed to oppose attack
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team sports: strategy and tactics
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team sports: portion of a team
argument in support or justification of something
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government policy or structure
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈfen.se/, [d̪eːˈfẽːs̠ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈfen.se/, [d̪eˈfɛnse]
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈfense/ [d̪eˈfẽn.se]
- Rhymes: -ense
- Syllabification: de‧fen‧se
Verb
defense
- inflection of defensar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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