Meaning

2 senses
  1. One engaged in diversionary, disruptive, or subversive activities.

    диверса́нтdiversánt, диверса́нткаdiversántka

  2. A person who deviates politically.

More definitions
  • someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom is a diversionist.

Translations

1 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one engaged in diversionary, disruptive, or subversive activities:

Origin

From diversion + -ist; first attested c. 1937.

From diversion + -ist; first attested c. 1937.

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Forms

plural: diversionists
Singulardiversionist
Pluraldiversionists

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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