WARLORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warlord mean? 

• WARLORD (noun)
  The noun WARLORD has 1 sense:

1. supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak

  Familiarity information: WARLORD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARLORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("warlord" is a kind of...):

military leader (a leader of military forces)