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war-monger

war-monger is the alternative form of warmonger.

Meaning of warmonger

Noun

warmonger (plural warmongers)

  1. (derogatory) 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
  2. 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

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Forms of war-monger

pluralwar-mongers

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

  1. war-horses
  2. war-king
  3. war-kings
  4. war-mask
  5. war-masks
  6. war-monger
  7. war-mongers
  8. war-paint
  9. war-paints
  10. war-ravaged
  11. war-ridden

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