American English pronunciation
How to pronounce warlord
IPA transcription: ['wɔɹ,lɔɹd]
Pronunciation variants: ['wɔɹ,lɔɹd]['wɚ,lɔɹd]['wɔɹ,lɚd]
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Noun
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supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak
Usage examples
- During the battle, The Warlord's crew was killed while he escaped using the hovercraft.
- Ozymandias was once a warlord in Ancient Egypt.
- China fell into a fragmented region of local warlords.
- Ma Chao later defected to another warlord Liu Bei, and Ma Dai accompanied him.
- His artistic name in Warlord is "Thunder Child".
- The fifth book serves to tie up loose ends from "The Flying Warlord".
- He called on the Chinese warlord from whose territory some rifle shots had come.
- He later became an independent warlord and leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community.
- The other major consideration in categorizing warlords is through the lens of history.
- The sovereign, however, remained the ultimate judge, warlord and owner of the land.