campaigner

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /kæmˈpeɪnər/ UK /kæmˈpeɪnə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person who works actively for a cause or candidate

A veteran campaigner, she knew every voter by name.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who works actively... activist advocate crusader champion militant organizer

Word family

Related forms campaign campaigning

Etymology

From campaign + -er. Campaign derives from French campagne ('open country'), from Italian campagna, from Late Latin campania ('level country'), from Latin campus ('field').

campania Late Latin campus Latin

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Topics

People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# campaigner

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /kæmˈpeɪnər/
**IPA (UK):** /kæmˈpeɪnə/

## Meanings
1. a person who works actively for a cause or candidate

## Examples
- A veteran campaigner, she knew every voter by name.

## Synonyms
- activist
- advocate
- crusader
- champion
- militant
- organizer

## Related Forms
- campaign
- campaigning

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: campania
- Root: campus

## Etymology
From campaign + -er. Campaign derives from French campagne ('open country'), from Italian campagna, from Late Latin campania ('level country'), from Latin campus ('field').

## AI Etymology
Campaigner is from campaign + -er. Campaign derives from French campagne ('open country'), from Italian campagna, from Late Latin campania ('level country'), from Latin campus ('field'). Important recorded forms include campania (Late Latin) and campus (Latin). Morphologically, the word is a built form whose named elements carry part of the historical sense. The current sense covers a person who works actively for a cause or candidate. The wider family includes related words such as campaign and campaigning.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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