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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈwɔɹlɔɹd/ [General-American], /ˈwɔːlɔːd/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-warlord.ogg Forms: warlords [plural]
Etymology: From war + lord. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|war|lord}} war + lord Head templates: {{en-noun}} warlord (plural warlords)
  1. A high military officer in a warlike nation. Categories (topical): Leaders, People Translations (high military officer in a warlike nation): أَمِير حَرْب (ʔamīr ḥarb) (Arabic), военачалник (voenačalnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 軍閥 (Chinese Mandarin), 军阀 (jūnfá) (Chinese Mandarin), 督軍 (Chinese Mandarin), 督军 (dūjūn) (Chinese Mandarin), 將軍 (Chinese Mandarin), 将军 (jiāngjun) (Chinese Mandarin), krijgsheer (Dutch), sõjapealik (Estonian), sotapäällikkö (Finnish), seigneur de guerre [masculine] (French), Kriegsherr [masculine] (German), πολέμαρχος (polémarchos) [masculine] (Greek), hadúr (Hungarian), taoiseach cogaidh [masculine] (Irish), signore della guerra [masculine] (Italian), 将軍 (shōgun) (alt: しょうぐん) (Japanese), ស្ដេចត្រាញ់ (sdach trañ) (Khmer), ស្ដេចសឹក (sdach sək) (Khmer), 장군 (janggun) (alt: 將軍) (Korean), војсководец (vojskovodec) [masculine] (Macedonian), senhor de la guèrra (Occitan), senhor da guerra [masculine] (Portuguese), главнокома́ндующий (glavnokomándujuščij) (english: commander in chief) [masculine] (Russian), военача́льник (vojenačálʹnik) [masculine] (Russian), воево́да (vojevóda) [masculine] (Russian), полково́дец (polkovódec) [masculine] (Russian), кома́ндующий (komándujuščij) [masculine] (Russian), ratni vođa [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), gospodar rata [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), vojskovođa [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), војсковођа [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), señor de la guerra [masculine] (Spanish), komutan (Turkish), cadlywydd [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. A local ruler or bandit leader usually where the government is weak. Translations (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak): 軍閥 (Chinese Mandarin), 军阀 (jūnfá) (Chinese Mandarin), 督軍 (Chinese Mandarin), 督军 (dūjūn) (Chinese Mandarin), sotaherra (Finnish), seigneur de la guerre [masculine] (French), Kriegsherr [masculine] (German), Warlord [masculine] (German), hadúr (Hungarian), taoiseach cogaidh [masculine] (Irish), signore della guerra [masculine] (Italian), ស្ដេចត្រាញ់ (sdach trañ) (Khmer), ស្ដេចសឹក (sdach sək) (Khmer), senhor de la guèrra (Occitan), watażka [masculine] (Polish), caudilho [masculine] (Portuguese), senhor da guerra [masculine] (Portuguese), полево́й команди́р (polevój komandír) [masculine] (Russian), милитари́ст (militaríst) [masculine] (Russian), señor de la guerra [masculine] (Spanish), krigsherre [common-gender] (Swedish), cadlywydd [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-warlord-en-noun-Ww6mr8Yz Disambiguation of 'local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: war lord, war-lord Derived forms: warlording Related terms: militia

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Alternative forms

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          "word": "督軍"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dūjūn",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "word": "督军"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "word": "sotaherra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "seigneur de la guerre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Kriegsherr"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Warlord"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "word": "hadúr"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "taoiseach cogaidh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "signore della guerra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "sdach trañ",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "word": "ស្ដេចត្រាញ់"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "sdach sək",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "word": "ស្ដេចសឹក"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "word": "senhor de la guèrra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "watażka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "caudilho"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "senhor da guerra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "polevój komandír",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "полево́й команди́р"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "militaríst",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "милитари́ст"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "señor de la guerra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "krigsherre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cadlywydd"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɔɹlɔɹd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɔːlɔːd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "war lord"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "war-lord"
    }
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    "warlord"
  ],
  "word": "warlord"
}
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    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Requests for review of Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Estonian translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Khmer translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Occitan translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations",
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      "name": "compound"
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  "etymology_text": "From war + lord.",
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      "form": "warlords",
      "tags": [
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      "expansion": "warlord (plural warlords)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "militia"
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          "ref": "2007 June 18, Nicholas Kristof, quoting Laurent Nkunda, “Dinner With a Warlord”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "“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.",
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          "ref": "2002 February 1, John F. Burns, “Warlord Fends Off Warlord, Echoing Afghans' Bitter Past”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "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 they were doomed to lose.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈwɔɹlɔɹd/",
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɔːlɔːd/",
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      "word": "war-lord"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔamīr ḥarb",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "أَمِير حَرْب"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "voenačalnik",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "военачалник"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "軍閥"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jūnfá",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "军阀"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "督軍"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dūjūn",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "督军"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "將軍"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiāngjun",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "将军"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "krijgsheer"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "sõjapealik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "sotapäällikkö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seigneur de guerre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kriegsherr"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "polémarchos",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "πολέμαρχος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "hadúr"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "taoiseach cogaidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "signore della guerra"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しょうぐん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shōgun",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "将軍"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "sdach trañ",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "ស្ដេចត្រាញ់"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "sdach sək",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "ស្ដេចសឹក"
    },
    {
      "alt": "將軍",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "janggun",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "장군"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "vojskovodec",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "војсководец"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "senhor de la guèrra"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "senhor da guerra"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "commander in chief",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "glavnokomándujuščij",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "главнокома́ндующий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vojenačálʹnik",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "военача́льник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vojevóda",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "воево́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "polkovódec",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "полково́дец"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "komándujuščij",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кома́ндующий"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ratni vođa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gospodar rata"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vojskovođa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "војсковођа"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "señor de la guerra"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "word": "komutan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "high military officer in a warlike nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cadlywydd"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "word": "軍閥"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jūnfá",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "word": "军阀"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "word": "督軍"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dūjūn",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "word": "督军"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "word": "sotaherra"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seigneur de la guerre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kriegsherr"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Warlord"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "word": "hadúr"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "taoiseach cogaidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "signore della guerra"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "sdach trañ",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "word": "ស្ដេចត្រាញ់"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "sdach sək",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "word": "ស្ដេចសឹក"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "word": "senhor de la guèrra"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "watażka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "caudilho"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "senhor da guerra"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "polevój komandír",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "полево́й команди́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "militaríst",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "милитари́ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "señor de la guerra"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "krigsherre"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cadlywydd"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "warlord"
  ],
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.