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MILITARY LEADER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A leader of military forces
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("military leader" is a kind of...):
leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military leader"):
warlord (supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak)
Instance hyponyms:
Jeanne d'Arc; Joan of Arc; Saint Joan (French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king; she was later tried for heresy and burned at the stake (1412-1431))
