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say it: MIL-uh-tur-iz-uhm
militarism is a noun meaning "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". It is pronounced /ˈmɪlətɚˌɪzəm/ — MIL-uh-tur-iz-uhm. It carries one recorded sense.
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for militarism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.