The high court decided to try the fugitive warlord in abstentia.
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Warlord
//ˈwɔɹlɔɹd//
Synonyms for "warlord" (25 found)
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Related words (12)
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60 translations across 27 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَمِير حَرْب noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Bulgarian
1 entries- военачалник noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Catalan
1 entries- senyor de la guerra noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 將軍 /将军 noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- 督軍 /督军 noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- 督軍 /督军 noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
- 軍閥 /军阀 noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Danish
2 entries- krigsherre noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- krigsherre noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Dutch
1 entries- krijgsheer noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Estonian
1 entries- sõjapealik noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Finnish
2 entries- sotaherra noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
- sotapäällikkö noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
French
2 entries- seigneur de guerre noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- seigneur de la guerre noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
German
3 entries- Kriegsherr noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- Kriegsherr noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
- Warlord noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Greek
1 entries- πολέμαρχος noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Hungarian
2 entries- hadúr noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- hadúr noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Irish
2 entries- taoiseach cogaidh noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- taoiseach cogaidh noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Italian
2 entries- signore della guerra noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- signore della guerra noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Japanese
1 entries- 将軍 noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Khmer
4 entries- ស្ដេចត្រាញ់ noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- ស្ដេចត្រាញ់ noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
- ស្ដេចសឹក noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- ស្ដេចសឹក noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Korean
2 entries- 군벌 noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
- 장군 noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Macedonian
1 entries- војсководец noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Occitan
2 entries- senhor de la guèrra noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- senhor de la guèrra noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Polish
1 entries- watażka noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Portuguese
3 entries- caudilho noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
- senhor da guerra noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- senhor da guerra noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Russian
4 entries- воево́да noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- военача́льник noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- главнокома́ндующий noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- кома́ндующий noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gospodar rata noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- ratni vođa noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- vojskovođa noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- војсковођа noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Spanish
4 entries- caudillo noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- caudillo noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
- señor de la guerra noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- señor de la guerra noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Swedish
2 entries- krigsherre noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- krigsherre noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
Turkish
1 entries- komutan noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
Welsh
2 entries- cadlywydd noun (high military officer in a warlike nation)
- cadlywydd noun (local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak)
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Tom looked out the window while fantasizing about being a warlord in an exotic land.
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The warlord made us translate sentences.
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The warlord looked good on Facebook.
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