What is the meaning of Defense?

The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.

Anything employed to oppose attack(s).

  1. A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
  2. The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.

A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.

The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.

An argument in support or justification of something.

The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.

The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.

Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.

A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

To employ defensive tactics (so as to block).

To furnish with defenses; to defend, protect.

vocative masculine singular of dēfēnsus

inflection of defensar:

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
  2. third-person singular imperative

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

third-person singular imperative

inflection of defensar:

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
  2. third-person singular imperative

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org