adjective
(comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
(comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.
(comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly.
(not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars.
(not comparable, astronomy, obsolete) Of or relating to the planet Mars; Martian.
(not comparable, chemistry, medicine, obsolete) Containing, or relating to, iron (which was symbolically associated with the planet Mars by alchemists); chalybeate, ferric, ferrous.
noun
(obsolete) A soldier, a warrior.
(astrology, obsolete) A celestial object under the astrological influence of the planet Mars.
(chiefly science fiction, obsolete) Synonym of Martian (“inhabitant of the planet Mars”).