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Military leader
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warlord
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A Warlord is a military leader. Usually, it refers to someone with both military and civil control over a subnational area due to armed forces loyal to the warlord and not to a central authority. It may also be used to refer to: History Warlord era , a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also war-lord , 1856, from war (n.) + lord (n.). Often a translation of German Kriegsherr or Chinese junfa .
Usage examples of warlord.
Warlord and his guests departed Acoma lands than Mara had embarked on a new plan to strengthen her house.
It was one to conjure with, for the Beja were the fiercest and most feared of all the fighting Arabs, and Osman Atalan was their most dreaded warlord.
Tell your outlaw buddies and bikers and so-called warlords to either straighten up their act or get ready to die.
The ultimate weapon, gunpowder, sold to a mandarin warlord in Choukoutien village.
The others bellowed with laughter at the sight, and to my surprise the Warlord and even Gorst himself also laughed heartily.
Deng was sent back to China by truck through Mongolia to bring munitions as well as his own services to a northern warlord who had momentarily allied with the Communists in the Hobbesian all-against-all war of regions and factions into which China had devolved.
We needed new warlords, and I decided then and there that I would give Issa his own band of men as soon as the Saxon war was over.
Mongol warlords, namely Mongolian Tartars, charged against the walled city of Kaffa in an attempt to push the resident Genoese colonists out of Mongolia and back into the sea.
Ka were all that remained of a town to which a handful of nineteenth-century Mamelukes had retreated, to live under the protection of Mek Nimr, Leopard King of Shendi, after their defeat by the Albanian warlord Khedive Mohammed.
Was China a soldier of fortune, a turncoat, or an independent warlord taking advantage f the Mozambican chaos for his own private ends?
Warlord rasped irritably, draining his goblet at a draft and hurling the goblet from him, to clang like a golden bell against the cold pavestone somewhere in the shadows beyond the reach of the firelight.
The men and women and kids were a far cry from what they had been when the Rebels rescued them from various outlaw and warlord strongholds around the nation.
Baird had been a half-grown kid fresh out of House Arvid Creche, pressed into duty only because the invading Xer would have shot him oh sight simply for being a Warlord.
That out of the way, the new warlord decided to move south to Apollonia, where sat the official governor of Macedonia, Gaius Antonius.
The Malazan contingent approaches, and the Warlord seeks your presence at the parley.