Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

war-king

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.99 in modern English

Syllables: war-k-ing
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A king in times of war; a warrior king.

Example Sentences

"All the inhabitants, excepting the Druids, were trained early to war, and every clan or family fought in a separate band, under the King of its particular nation, and a War King elected as chief general."
"Turner thinks that the Bret-walda [...] was a war-king, elected by the other Anglo-Saxon kings and their nobility, as their leader in the time of war."
"[T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge."

Inflected Forms

war-kings (plural)

Questions

What does war-king mean?: A king in times of war; a warrior king.

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