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war-king

war-king noun: a king in times of war; a warrior king.

Noun

war-king (plural war-kings)

  1. A king in times of war; a warrior king.
    • All the inhabitants, excepting the Druids, were trained early to war, and every clan or family fought in a separate band, under the King of its particular nation, and a War King elected as chief general.1828, Richard Thomson, Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, volume II, Edinburgh: Constable and Co., page 82
    • Turner thinks that the Bret-walda [...] was a war-king, elected by the other Anglo-Saxon kings and their nobility, as their leader in the time of war.1882, Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, volume I, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, page 131, column 2

Forms of war-king

pluralwar-kings

Questions about war-king

What does war-king mean?
War-king means a king in times of war; a warrior king.
What part of speech is war-king?
War-king is a noun.
What is the plural of war-king?
The plural of war-king is war-kings.

Words near war-king in the dictionary

  1. war-hero
  2. war-horn
  3. war-horns
  4. war-horse
  5. war-horses
  6. war-king
  7. war-kings
  8. war-mask
  9. war-masks
  10. war-monger
  11. war-mongers

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