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warlord

UK/ˈwɔːlɔːd//ˈwɔɹlɔɹd/

warlord noun: a military commander or bandit leader wielding civilian power in an area where the government is weak.

Noun

warlord (plural warlords)

  1. A military commander or bandit leader wielding civilian power in an area where the government is weak.
    • Afghanistan's first major battle of the post-Taliban era ended tonight when the soldiers of the warlord besieging this strategic city south of Kabul ran out of ammunition and fled the battlefront in clouds of dust, cursing the warlord to his face for his callousness in committing them to a fight...2002 February 1, John F. Burns, “Warlord Fends Off Warlord, Echoing Afghans' Bitter Past”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • “I’m not a warlord … I’m a liberator of the people,” he said. That’s the problem: So are they all. More than four million people have died in Congo’s wars since 1998, making it the most lethal conflict since World War II.2007 June 18, Nicholas Kristof, quoting Laurent Nkunda, “Dinner With a Warlord”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

warlord meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati and Odia

warlord in Tamil

ராணுவ தலைவர்

warlord in Urdu

جنگی سردار

warlord in Gujarati

લડાયક સરદાર

warlord in Odia

ଯୁଦ୍ଧପତି
More languagesFewer languages
warlord in Arabic
أَمِير حَرْب ʔamīr ḥarb

Examples of warlord in a sentence

  • That left me with either a human female paladin or a tiefling warlord.
  • Warlords leveraged their veteran soldiers to seize living space while the Council races were still grateful.
  • I remember paladins, rangers, druids, barbarians, swordmages and warlords among those.

All 17 example sentences with warlord

Forms of warlord

pluralwarlords
alternative formwar lord
alternative formwar-lord

Plural of warlord: warlords

Origin of warlord

From war + lord.

Words formed from warlord

Phrases with warlord

Questions about warlord

What does warlord mean?
Warlord means a military commander or bandit leader wielding civilian power in an area where the government is weak.
What is warlord in Tamil?
Warlord in Tamil is ராணுவ தலைவர். See Warlord meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is warlord?
Warlord is a noun.
How do you pronounce warlord?
Warlord is pronounced /ˈwɔɹlɔɹd/ (US).
What is the plural of warlord?
The plural of warlord is warlords.

Words near warlord in the dictionary

  1. warlockcraft
  2. warlockries
  3. warlockry
  4. warlocks
  5. warlocky
  6. warlord
  7. Warlord Era
  8. warlording
  9. warlordism
  10. warlordisms
  11. warlords

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: warlord (page history and authors); warlord (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); warlord (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); warlord (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); warlord (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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