cold warrior

noun

A participant in the Cold War.

Meanings

cold warrior1

nouncold warrior (plural cold warriors)

plural cold warriors

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Cold Warrior.

Cold Warrior2

nounCold Warrior (plural Cold Warriors)

plural Cold Warriors · alternative cold warrior

  1. historyA participant in the Cold War.

    Like many other ‘Cold Warriors’ of the European political center, [Raymond] Aron had only limited sympathy for the United States—‘the U.S. economy seems to me’, he wrote, ‘a model neither for humanity nor the West’.

    2005, Tony Judt, “Culture Wars”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN

Translations

Danish koldkriger
  • koldkrigerparticipant in the Cold War
German kalter Krieger
  • kalter Kriegerparticipant in the Cold War
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APA

cold warrior. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cold%20warrior

MLA

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Chicago

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