war hawk

1. 1.

   an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations

   Synonymshawk

   Broadermilitarist

Questions about war hawk

What does war hawk mean?

war hawk means "an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations".

What is another word for war hawk?

Close synonyms include hawk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is war hawk a common word?

war hawk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.