war-monger
war-monger is the alternative form of warmonger.
Meaning of warmonger
Noun
warmonger (plural warmongers)
- Someone who advocates war to an enthusiastic or ardent degree.
- Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.1952 September 22, “Since Stevenson Prefers 'Compromise', Foreign Policy Is Squarely in the Campaign”, in LIFE, volume 33, number 12, Time Inc., →ISSN, page 30
- Synonyms:
- bellicist, hawk, jingoist, militarist, war hawk
- A mercenary soldier.
- With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;
But he on it lookt ſcornefully askew,
As much diſdeigning to be ſo miſdempt,
Or a war-monger to be baſely nempt;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550
- With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
Forms of war-monger
| plural | war-mongers |
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Questions about war-monger
- What is war-monger the alternative form of?
- War-monger is the alternative form of warmonger.
Words near war-monger in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: war-monger (page history and authors); warmonger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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