LITIGANT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation

Example:

plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants

Synonyms:

litigant; litigator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("litigant" is a kind of...):

party (a person involved in legal proceedings)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "litigant"):

defendant; suspect (a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused)

appellant; plaintiff in error (the party who appeals a decision of a lower court)

filer (a party who files a notice with a law court)

complainant; plaintiff (a person who brings an action in a court of law)

prevailing party (the party in a lawsuit who obtains a judgment in their own favor)

Derivation:

litigate (engage in legal proceedings)