war cry en · NOUN
Meanings
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An exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle; a battle cry.
Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.
1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| war cries | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| warcry | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (18)
fi sotahuuto (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · vo krigaluvokäd (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · sq kushtrim (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · de Kriegsgeschrei (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · it grido di guerra (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · ja 鬨の声 (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · grc ἀϋτή (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · ga rosc catha (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · sa क्रन्दस् (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · grc ἀλαλή (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · pl okrzyk wojenny (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · ja 鬨 (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · kk ұран (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · egy h-m-h-m*t-A2 (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · es exclamación bélica (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · sv stridsrop (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · grc βοή (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle) · ru боево́й клич (exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle)