Noncombatant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Noncombatant \Non*com"bat*ant\, n.
     1. (Mil.) Any person connected with an army, or within the
        lines of an army, who does not make it his business to
        fight, as any one of the medical officers and their
        assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the
        citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one


        holding a similar position with respect to the navy.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A person not attached to a military unit, or not
        participating in the military activities of a war; a
        civilian; as, the bomb killed twenty noncombatants.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  noncombatant
       adj 1: used of civilians in time of war
       2: member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting
          as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon
       n : a member of the armed forces who does not participate in
           combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "noncombatant":
     citizen, civilian, conciliatory, dovish, irenic, nonaggressive,
     nonbelligerent, nonmilitant, nonresistant, nonresister, nonviolent,
     pacific, pacifist, pacifistic, peace-loving, peaceable,
     unbellicose, uncontentious, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary