warlord

«warlord» in Mova's school dictionary: a military leader who controls an area by force with his… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a warlord, warlords)

meaning for a pupil

A warlord is a military leader who controls an area by force with his own army, usually when there is no strong government. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and news it is used for leaders in civil wars, in ancient China's Warring States period, or in places without a working government. It tells the reader that power comes from weapons, not elections. Phrases: local warlord, rival warlords.

examples

• Rival warlords fought for control of the region. tree →
• In the 1920s, warlords ruled many parts of China. tree →
• The warlord's soldiers stole food from the villages. tree →
• Without a government, warlords took over. tree →
• The game's villain is a cruel warlord. tree →
• Peace talks brought the warlords to one table. tree →

note

Countable. Made from war + lord. Usually negative. Similar: chieftain (older, more neutral), strongman.

In the corpora

• Then China broke apart under warlords, students marched in 1919, and Japan invaded, in 1931 and fully in 1937.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «warlord» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.