Martial vs Wu - What's the difference?
martial | wu | Synonyms |
Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
* Dryden
Relating to or connected with the armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.
(comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike.
(medicine, chemistry, obsolete) Relating to, or containing, iron; chalybeate.
(historic) Suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence:
# (historic) A county of imperial and Republican China around Suzhou.
# (historic) A commandery of imperial China around Suzhou.
A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
# The family of Chinese languages spoken in that region, including Shanghainese and Suzhounese, the second-most spoken family after Mandarin.
# (historic) The kingdom ruled by the Ji family from Wuxi and then Suzhou during the Spring and Autumn period of China's Zhou dynasty.
# A common Chinese surname:
# (historic) The kingdom ruled by the Sun family from Ezhou and Nanjing during the Three Kingdoms interregnum following China's Han dynasty.
# (historic) The kingdom ruled by Li Zitong from Yangzhou and Hangzhou during the interregnum following China's Sui dynasty.
# (historic) The kingdom ruled by the Yang family from Yangzhou during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
# (historic) The kingdom ruled by the Qian family from Hangzhou and Shaoxing during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
Martial is a synonym of wu.
As an adjective martial
is of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.As a noun wu is
(historic) a chinese shaman or shamaness.martial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But peaceful kings, o'er martial people set, / Each other's poise and counterbalance are.
- martial preparations
- martial flowers: a reddish crystalline salt of iron