belligerent
noun/bəˈlɪdʒərənt/
/bəˈlɪdʒərənt/
(formal)- a country or group that is fighting a warTopics War and conflictc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin belligerant- ‘waging war’, from the verb belligerare, from bellum ‘war’.
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