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Definition: Warlord |
WarlordNoun1. Supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "warlord" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Warlord (1981) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
German Emperors bore the title of Warlord (in German: Kriegsherr) -- sometimes as a formal label of honour, sometimes in grim earnest.
More recently the word warlord has become a general pejorative term that refers to a person who has de facto military control of a subnational area by virtue of military force which is personally obedient to that warlord.
Groups of rival warlords predominate in the rule of Somalia. As of 2003 much of Afghanistan, despite the presence of non-regional military forces there, also remains under warlord control. Warlords exercised widespread rule in China in the period following the overthrow of the empire in 1911.
DC Comics published a comic book called The Warlord from 1976. Vietnam veteran pilot Travis Morgan, the title character, passes through a dimensional barrier to the sword and sorcery world of Skartaris, in a move strongly reminiscent of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book was DC's answer to Marvel Comics's popular Conan the Barbarian title.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Warlord."
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Economic History | South Korea | Beginning in 1592, the Japanese warlord, Hideyoshi, launched several military campaigns to take the peninsula. (references) |
Guinea | French domination was assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Almamy Samory Touré, warlord and leader of Malinke descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas. (references) | |
Afghanistan | In 1994 it developed enough strength to capture the city of Kandahar from a local warlord and proceeded to expand its control throughout Afghanistan, occupying Kabul in September 1996. By the end of 1998, the Taliban occupied about 90% of the country, limiting the opposition largely to a small largely Tajik corner in the northeast and the Panjshir valley. (references) | |
Human Rights | Somalia | On May 11, 80 persons were killed during a clash between clan militiamen loyal to the TNG and forces of warlord Hussein Aideed. (references) |
Somalia | On March 27, militiamen loyal to warlord Muse Sude attacked the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) compound and held nine U.N. and MSF aid officials hostage. (references) | |
Somalia | On July 13, 11 persons were killed, including 2 children, and numerous others were injured during fighting between warlord Muse Sudi's militiamen and rival militia groups. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Warlord" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.26% of the time. "Warlord" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 65.26% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 34.74% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Total | 100.00% | 95 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "warlord"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shef ushtarak, kryekomandant (commander in chief, general-in-chief, generalissimo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قائد عسكري (commander), اللواء (brigade, major general). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | върховен началник на армията, войнолюбец (war hawk), военен диктатор, военачалник (captain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 軍閥 , 军阀. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | váleèný magnát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | seigneur de la guerre, major général, chef militaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kriegsherr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצביא (commander in chief). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | condottiero (leader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arlordway chefe militar, chefão, caudilho. (various references) военачальник (chieftain). (various references) vojni zapovednik, ratni diktator. (various references) señor de la guerra, jefe militar, adalid (champion). (various references) fältherre (general, military commander). (various references) kumandan (commandant, commander, headman), diktatör (autocrat, big brother, Caesar, dictator, fuhrer, strong man). (various references) во"начальник (soldier), полководець (chieftain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "warlord": warlordism, warlordisms, warlords. (additional references) | |
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"Warlord" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barlord, Warford, warloord. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "warlord" (pronounced wô"rlô'rd) |
| 4 | -l ô' r d | landlord, overlord. |
| 3 | -ô' r d | aboveboard, baseboard, billboard, blackboard, broadsword, cardboard, checkerboard, chessboard, chipboard, clapboard, clavichord, clipboard, concord, containerboard, dartboard, dashboard, fiberboard, fibreboard, fingerboard, floorboard, hardboard, harpsichord, headboard, inboard, keyboard, linerboard, mopboard, notochord, onboard, outboard, overboard, paperboard, pegboard, plasterboard, pressboard, scoreboard, seaboard, shipboard, skateboard, smorgasbord, snowboard, springboard, storyboard, surfboard, switchboard, underinsured, wallboard, washboard. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-l-o-r-r-w" | |
-2 letters: ardor, arrow, drawl, waldo, woald, world. | |
-3 letters: alow, awol, dorr, draw, lard, load, lord, orad, oral, orra, road, roar, ward, woad, wold, word. | |
-4 letters: ado, awl, dal, daw, dol, dor, dow, lad, lar, law, low, oar, old, ora, owl, rad, raw, rod, row, wad, war. | |
-5 letters: ad, al, ar, aw, do, la, lo, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-l-o-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: warlords. | |
+2 letters: forwardly, frowardly. | |
+3 letters: afterworld, dreamworld, warlordism. | |
+4 letters: afterworlds, bladderwort, dreamworlds, swordplayer, warlordisms. | |
+5 letters: bladderworts, swordplayers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 72 6C 6F 72 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. .-.. --- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110010 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a r l o r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0072 006C 006F 0072 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57678478818470 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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