warman

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From war +‎ -man.

Noun[edit]

warman (plural warmen)

  1. (archaic, rare) A warrior.
    • 1881, Bayard Taylor, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 147:
      Our entrance was attended with the usual ceremony, now familiar to the reader: the warmen danced, shot, and shouted, a rabble of adults, youths and boys crowded upon us, the fair sex lulliloo'd with vigor[.]