deserter Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
    ratter; renegade; turncoat; recreant; apostate.
  2. noun a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)
    defector.

WordNet

De*sert"er
Definitions
  1. (), n. One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.

Webster 1913