war party

1. 1.

   a band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans)

   Broaderparty

   Amerindian

2. 2.

   a political party that supports a war

   Broaderparty

Questions about war party

What does war party mean?

war party means "a band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is war party a common word?

war party 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.