warlordnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈwɔː.lɔːd/us/ˈwɔːr.lɔːrd/mainly disapprovinga military leader who controls a country or, more often, an area within a country
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Powerful people & dictators
- a heavy hitter idiom
- authoritarian
- autocrat
- autocratic
- big beast
- despot
- dictator
- dictatorial
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- figurehead
- grey eminence
- heavy
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- potentate
- power broker
- puissance
- puissant
- tyrant
- voiceless
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