warlord
noun/ˈwɔrlɔrd/
Frequency rank: #11,836 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a military commander who controls a region by force, often independently of a central government.
Example sentence
The remote region was controlled by a local warlord who commanded thousands of soldiers.
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