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war cry

war cry noun: an exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle; a battle cry.

Noun

war cry (plural war cries)

  1. An exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle; a battle cry.
    • Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175

war cry meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Sanskrit

war cry in Tamil

விளிவு, வீரகோஷம், போர்முழக்கம்

war cry in Urdu

جنگ کا نعرہ, جنگی نعرہ

war cry in Kannada

ರಣಘೋಷ, ರಣಗರ್ಜನೆ, ಕಾಳಗದ ಕೂಗು, ಕಾಳಗದಬ್ಬರ

war cry in Sanskrit

exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle
क्रन्दस् krandas

Forms of war cry

pluralwar cries
alternative formwarcry

Questions about war cry

What does war cry mean?
War cry means an exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle; a battle cry.
What is war cry in Tamil?
War cry in Tamil is விளிவு, வீரகோஷம், போர்முழக்கம். See War cry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is war cry?
War cry is a noun.
What is the plural of war cry?
The plural of war cry is war cries.

Words near war cry in the dictionary

  1. war cries
  2. war crime
  3. war crimes
  4. war criminal
  5. war criminals
  6. war cry
  7. war daddies
  8. war daddy
  9. war dance
  10. war dances
  11. War Democrat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: war cry (page history and authors); war cry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); war cry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); war cry (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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