warmonger

See also: war-monger

English

Alternative forms

• war-monger
• war monger

Etymology

From war +‎ monger.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə(ɹ)/

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Noun

warmonger (plural warmongers)

1. (derogatory) Someone who advocates war; a militarist.

   Synonyms: bellicist, hawk, jingoist, war hawk

   • 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:

     Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.

   • 2007, “Clenching the Fists of Dissent”, in Robb Flynn (lyrics), The Blackening, performed by Machine Head, Track 1:

     Do you hear revolution's call? / Time to fight our own denial / Warmongers keep us locked in fear / Invoke the past, a moment of tears / An ugly truth put forth by our youth / Under the threat of patriotic brute / So use your rage / It is a weapon we now must engage / Let trumpets sound our call / Or by their lies we will fall

2. 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;

Derived terms

• warmongery

Related terms

• monger (and its other derived terms)
• war profiteer

Translations

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:

  Mandarin: 戰爭販子 / 战争贩子 (zhànzhēng fànzi), 主戰論者 / 主战论者 (zhǔzhànlùnzhě), 好戰分子 / 好战分子 (hàozhàn fènzǐ)

• 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 (ja) (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)
• Serbo-Croatian: ratohuškač m
• 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

See also

• merchant of death

Verb

warmonger (third-person singular simple present warmongers, present participle warmongering, simple past and past participle warmongered)

1. (derogatory, intransitive) To advocate war.
   • 2002, Robert Colls, Identity of England‎^[1]:

     Harmsworth's Daily Mail had warmongered for over twenty years.

Translations

to advocate war

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: lietsoa sotaa
• Hungarian: háborúra uszít
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 전쟁을 내세우다 (jeonjaeng-eul naese'uda), 전쟁을 주장하다 (jeonjaeng-eul jujanghada)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can