• One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
    One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.

    A great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.
    To inflict great pain on.


    Martyr meaning & definition 1 of Martyr.


  • A martyr is a person who dies fighting for what they believe in. A martyr can either kill themselves or be killed.
    In the 19th Century, a woman in England named Emily Davison (A member of the suffragette party) becamame a matryr after killing herself by jumping infront of horses at the Epson Derby.
    Martyrs gain a lot of sympathy by the public for preforming such an act which is one of the main contributing factors as to why they do it in the first place.

    Martyr meaning & definition 2 of Martyr.


  • Most of these definitions are wrong or half right, there are two types of Martyrs:

    1.) One who puts themselves in harms way so that someone else doesnt have to. One who would die fighting for a cause.

    2.) An [attention whore] who puts themselves in harms way and/or complains about it expecting others to feel thankful or sorry for them. For [Glory].

    Martyr meaning & definition 3 of Martyr.


  • VERB: The act of seeking sympathy and attention by exaggerating pain on your social media pages.

    Martyr meaning & definition 4 of Martyr.


  • -One who purposefully puts himself in harms way

    -One who deliberately puts himself in situations to force sympathy and pity out of those around him.

    -One who makes his situation sound worse than it ever really will be in order to seek attention

    Attention seeker.

    Martyr meaning & definition 5 of Martyr.


  • Someone who purposely takes on extra duties or unpleasant activity for the sake of attention and being able to complain about it.

    Martyr meaning & definition 6 of Martyr.


  • Fomerly known as your [Wingman] or [Taking one for the team]. A guy that sacrifices himself by removing the [we gotta go girl] or the [ugly chick] from the gaggle of women that you are attempting to take home. Since women know what [Wingman] means, this is the deceptive term to get their guard down.

    Martyr meaning & definition 7 of Martyr.


  • A person who seeks out and/or nurtures conflict within their life.

    A person who creates drama in their life where there was none before.

    Often describes an attention whore or a pity whore, who find pleasure in lording their pain over others and garnering support because of it. A martyr seeks out and revels in personal conflict so as to have an excuse to be angry.

    Martyr meaning & definition 8 of Martyr.


  • ONe who dies for the cause of the hood.

    Martyr meaning & definition 9 of Martyr.


  • 1- Person who suffers or dies for a belief, idea or cause.
    2-([Figuratively]) Person who suffers mistreatment
    [3-]/[u/Holofan4life]

    Martyr meaning & definition 10 of Martyr.

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