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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə(ɹ)/
warmonger (plural warmongers)
- (derogatory) Someone who advocates war; a militarist.
1952 September 22, “Since Stevenson Prefers 'Compromise', Foreign Policy Is Squarely in the Campaign”, in LIFE, volume 33, number 12, Time Inc., →ISSN, page 30:
- A mercenary soldier.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550:
With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;
But he on it lookt ſcornefully askew,
As much diſdeigning to be ſo miſdempt,
Or a war-monger to be baſely nempt;
one who advocates war
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: مُحَرِّض حَرْب m (muḥarriḍ ḥarb), مُحَرِّضَة حَرْب f (muḥarriḍa(t) ḥarb)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: военолюбец m (voenoljubec)
- Catalan: bel·licista, militarista
- Chinese:
- Czech: válečný štváč m
- Danish: krigsopvigler c (Nazi slur against Churchill), krigsliderlig
- Dutch: oorlogsstoker m, oorlogsstookster f, oorlogshitser (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: sodanlietsoja (fi)
- French: belliciste (fr) m or f, va-t-en-guerre (fr) m or f, marchand de guerre m, marchande de guerre f, militariste (fr) m or f
- German: Kriegstreiber (de) m, Kriegshetzer m
- Greek: πολεμοκάπηλος (el) m (polemokápilos)
- Hungarian: háborús uszító (hu), háborúpárti (hu), héja (hu), a háború híve
- Icelandic: stríðsæsingamaður m
- Italian: guerrafondaio (it) m, guerrafondaia (it) f, bellicista (it)
- Japanese: 戦争屋 (sensōya), 軍国主義者 (gunkokushugisha), 鷹派 (takaha), 強硬派 (kyōkōha), 戦争好き (sensōzuki)
- Korean: 전쟁광(戰爭狂) (jeonjaenggwang), 전쟁 도발자 (jeonjaeng dobalja)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: krigshisser m
- Nynorsk: krigshissar m
- Polish: podżegacz wojenny m
- Portuguese: belicista (pt) m or f
- Romanian: ațâțător la război m
- Russian: разжига́тель войны́ m (razžigátelʹ vojný), поджига́тель войны́ m (podžigátelʹ vojný), милитари́ст (ru) m (militaríst)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: belicista (es) m or f, militarista (es) m or f
- Swedish: krigshetsare (sv) c, krigsivrare c
- Thai: ผู้กระหายสงคราม (pûu-grà-hǎai-sǒng-kraam)
- Turkish: ateş karıştırıcısı, savaş çığırtkanı, savaş kışkırtıcısı, savaş satıcısı
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: kẻ hiếu chiến, kẻ gây chiến
warmonger (third-person singular simple present warmongers, present participle warmongering, simple past and past participle warmongered)
- (derogatory, intransitive) To advocate war.
2002, Robert Colls, Identity of England[1]:
Harmsworth's Daily Mail had warmongered for over twenty years.
to advocate war