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From agitate + -or.

agitator (plural agitators)

  1. One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others, for example political reformers.
    Synonym: agitant
    Hyponym: agitatrix
    Near-synonyms: instigator; see also Thesaurus:troublemaker
    • 1998, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial Power and Popular Politics, page 208:
      In addition, they kept a watch on political agitators and foreigners arriving and departing at the port.
    • 2025 September 23, Patrick G. Eddington, “On Trump’s Anti-Antifa Executive Order”, in Cato Institute‎[2]:
      I’m only aware of one anti-ICE raid incident in California over the summer in which a single agitator pointed a pistol at federal agents, and that person is apparently still at large.
  2. An implement for shaking or mixing.
  3. (historical) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Oliver Cromwell's time, to look after their interests.
    Synonym: adjutator

one who agitates

implement for shaking or mixing

From Latin agitatus (“putting in motion”).

agitator

  1. agitator; one who agitates.

agitator c (singular definite agitatoren, plural indefinite agitatorer)

  1. agitator

Borrowed from Latin agitātor.

agitator m (plural agitators, no diminutive)

  1. an agitator, one who stirs up unrest, a demagogue
    Synonyms: demagoog, volksmenner

From Dutch agitator, from Latin agitātor.

agitator (plural **agitator-agitator)

  1. agitator
    Synonyms: penghasut, provokator

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Italic *-āō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Latin agitātor

From agitō + -tor.

agitātor m (genitive agitātōris); third declension

  1. driver of animals; drover
  2. charioteer

Third-declension noun.

agitātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of agitō

Borrowed from German Agitator,[1] from Latin agitātor. By surface analysis, agitować +‎ -ator. First attested in 1833.[2][3]

agitator m pers (female equivalent agitatorka)

  1. (politics) agitator (one who tries to gather supporters for a political ideal)
    partyjny agitator ― a party agitator
    prymitywny agitator ― a primitive agitator
    unijny agitator ― a union agitator
    polityczny agitator ― a political agitator
    młody agitator ― a young agitator
    notatnik agitatora ― an agitator's notebook
    poradnik agitatora ― an agitator's handbook
    rola agitatora ― the role of a agitator
    narada agitatorów ― a conference of agitators
    grupa agitatorów ― a group of agitator
    agitator sekty ― an agitator of a sect/cult

agitator m inan

  1. agitator (implement for shaking or mixing)
    Synonyms: mieszarka, mieszadło
  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “agitator”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Gazeta Wielkiego Xięstwa Poznańskiego‎[1], number 53, 1833, page 285
  3. ^ agitator in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from French agitateur. Equivalent to agita +‎ -tor.

agitator m (plural agitatori, feminine equivalent agitatoare)

  1. stirrer

agìtātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling агѝта̄тор)

  1. agitator

agitator c

  1. an agitator; one who agitates