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paladin

nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈpælədɪn//

A heroic champion, especially a knight.

noun

  1. 1

    A heroic champion, especially a knight.

    For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code.

    Below are the results of a multi-actor simulation containing a bunch of paladins with slightly different L75 and L100 talents.

  2. 2

    A defender or advocate of a noble cause.

  3. 3

    Any of the twelve Companions of the court of Emperor Charlemagne.

Etymology

Borrowed from French paladin, from Italian paladino, from Late Latin palātīnus (“palace officer”), derived from palātium (“palace”). Doublet of palatine.

Forms

plural
paladins
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).