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warmongers

warmongers is the plural of warmonger.

warmongers is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about warmongers

What is warmongers the plural of?
Warmongers is the plural of warmonger.

Words near warmongers in the dictionary

  1. warmongerer
  2. warmongerers
  3. warmongering
  4. warmongerings
  5. warmongerism
  6. warmongers
  7. warmongery
  8. Warmoth
  9. Warmoths
  10. warmouth
  11. warmouths

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