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WAR PARTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A political party that supports a war
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("war party" is a kind of...):
party; political party (an organization to gain political power)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("war party" is a kind of...):
company; party (a band of people associated temporarily in some activity)
Domain category:
Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)