MILITARIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does militarist mean? 

• MILITARIST (noun)
  The noun MILITARIST has 1 sense:

1. a person who advocates war or warlike policies

  Familiarity information: MILITARIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who advocates war or warlike policies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

militarist; warmonger

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)