Warlord

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  warlord
       n : supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region
           especially one accountable to nobody when the central
           government is weak

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "warlord":
     Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler,
     arrogator, autarch, autocrat, caesar, commissar, czar, despot,
     dictator, disciplinarian, driver, duce, hard master, martinet,
     oligarch, oppressor, pharaoh, slave driver, stickler, tyrant,
     usurper