warlord
warlord
Definition
war·lord (wôr′lôrd′)
noun
- a high military officer in a warlike nation
- an aggressive tyrant
- a local ruler or bandit leader, as formerly in China, with some sort of military following in a district where the established government is weak
war′·lord′·ism′ noun
warlord
Synonyms
warlord
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- back: Since then the various Western powers have backed different warlords for their own particular ends.
- become: CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with Gulliver Jones, another soldier who became a warlord on Mars.
- support: She briefly supported the then warlord in his quest to overthrow military leader Samuel Doe.
- compete: China became divided into territories ruled by competing warlords, but in Guangdong province the Nationalist Party came to power.
- capture: We can't go to Burma and capture warlords there.
- battle: The King Arthur we recognize today, is far removed from the battling warlord on whom he was based.
Converse of subject
- control: Currency issue had previously been controlled by the various warlords, who seemed to have little regard for the hyperinflationary consequences of their actions.
- rule: First China, nominally a republic since 1911, but in reality the distant province of Sinkiang is ruled by warlords.
- run: The gesture did not work and China became a nation run by warlords in their own region.
- overtake: Gently touching on themes of racism and ethnic cleansing, Untold Legends tells the tale of a kingdom overtaken by a monstrous warlord.
Adjective modifier
- Somali: Al Qaeda has formed an alliance with a Somali warlord.
- Afghan: D: " Afghan warlords to whom he outsourced the job.
- tribal: Macbeth lacks political skill, and turns the gracious office of king into the rule of a bloody tribal warlord.
- brutal: But that strategy has left Afghanistan at the mercy of brutal warlords and at perpetual risk of chaos.
- rival: Build and defend your stronghold, raid rival warlords, and dominate the planet.
- evil: The world is under the terrible rule of Aku and his evil robot warlords.
Modifies a noun
- stronghold: They then got the Northern Alliance to stop attacking these warlords strongholds.
Noun used with modifier
- Viking: PSM ( PlayStation Magazine ) featured a two page preview on Rune: Viking Warlord in their May, 2001 issue.
- drug: It also says the military government in Yangon refuses to hand over known drugs warlords and tolerates money laundering.
Preposition: in
- country: The hyper-inflation has been caused by a number of factors including the printing of money by some of the warlords in the country.
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