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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warlord/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warlord/#x1)
- In the 1920s, warlords ruled many parts of China. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warlord/#x2)
- The warlord's soldiers stole food from the villages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warlord/#x3)
- Without a government, warlords took over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warlord/#x4)
- The game's villain is a cruel warlord. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warlord/#x5)
- Peace talks brought the warlords to one table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warlord/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «warlord» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warlord/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.