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MILITARIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who advocates war or warlike policies

Synonyms:

militarist; warmonger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("militarist" is a kind of...):

adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "militarist"):

hawk; war hawk (an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations)

Derivation:

militarism (a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests)

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