WAR PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does war party mean? 

• WAR PARTY (noun)
  The noun WAR PARTY has 2 senses:

1. a band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans)

2. a political party that supports a war

  Familiarity information: WAR PARTY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAR PARTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("war party" is a kind of...):

company; party (a band of people associated temporarily in some activity)

Domain category:

Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A political party that supports a war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("war party" is a kind of...):

party; political party (an organization to gain political power)