war cry

See also: warcry

English

Alternative forms

• warcry

Noun

war cry (plural war cries)

1. An exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle; a battle cry.
   • 1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:

     Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.

Translations

exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle

• Albanian: kushtrim (sq) m
• Egyptian: (hmhmt)
• German: Kriegsgeschrei n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀλαλή f (alalḗ), βοή f (boḗ), ἀϋτή f (aütḗ) (Epic)

• Irish: rosc catha m
• Italian: grido di guerra (it) m
• Japanese: 鬨 (ja) (toki), 鬨の声 (toki no koe)
• Kazakh: ұран (ūran)
• Polish: okrzyk wojenny m
• Russian: боево́й клич m (bojevój klič)
• Sanskrit: क्रन्दस् (sa) n (krandas)
• Spanish: exclamación bélica f
• Swedish: stridsrop (sv) n
• Volapük: krigaluvokäd

References

• WordNet