turncoat
🇬🇧 UK/'tә:nkәut/🇺🇸 US
GREC2
Definitions
n.
A person who betrays their former allegiance or switches sides; a traitor
叛徒,变节者
🧩 Root Breakdown
Native Englishturnother
+
coatother
=turncoat
Common Collocations
- 1.branded a turncoat被扣上叛徒帽子
- 2.political turncoat政治变节者
- 3.[notorious turncoat]臭名昭著的叛徒
- 4.call someone a turncoat称某人为叛徒
Example Sentences
- 1.
The general was branded a turncoat after defecting to the enemy.
- 2.
His colleagues saw him as a turncoat when he testified against the union.
- 3.
History remembers Benedict Arnold as America's most infamous turncoat.