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war (wɔː
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Definitions
noun
- open armed conflict between two or more parties, nations, or states related adjectives belligerent martial
- a particular armed conflict ⇒
the 1973 war in the Middle East
- the techniques of armed conflict as a study, science, or profession
- any conflict or contest ⇒
a war of wits
,the war against crime
- modifier of, relating to, resulting from, or characteristic of war ⇒
a war hero
,war damage
,a war story
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See in the wars
verb
Word forms: wars, warring, warred
- intr to conduct a war
Word Origin
C12: from Old Northern French werre (variant of Old French guerre), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German werraSynonyms
View thesaurus entry = conflict, drive, attack, fighting, fight, operation, battle, movement, push, struggle, clash, combat, offensive, hostilities, hostility, warfare, expedition, crusade, strife, bloodshed, jihad, enmity, armed conflict,
Quotations including 'war'
"War is nothing but the continuation of politics by other means"
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed"
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace"
"War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading"
"He that makes a good war makes a good peace"
"O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?"
"For what can war but endless war still breed?"
"Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry,The subject of it is War, and the Pity of War.The Poetry is in the Pity"
"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular"
"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers"
"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men"
"War is like love, it always finds a way"
"It is easier to make war than to make peace"
"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man"
"History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen"
"Let slip the dogs of war"
"War is the trade of kings"
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it"
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come"
"Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed"
Constitution of UNESCO"The next war will be fought with atom bombs and the one after that with spears"
"A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end"
pacifist slogan"Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity"
anti-war graffiti"War will cease when men refuse to fight"
pacifist slogan"After each war there is a little less democracy to save"
"What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again"
"In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more"
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb"
"All is fair in love and war"
Translations for 'war'
- British English: war A war is a period of fighting between countries.They've been at war for the last 15 years.wɔː NOUN
- Arabic: حَرْب
- Brazilian Portuguese: guerra
- Chinese: 战争
- Croatian: rat
- Czech: válka
- Danish: krig
- Dutch: oorlog
- European Spanish: guerra
- Finnish: sota
- French: guerre
- German: Krieg
- Greek: πόλεμος
- Italian: guerra
- Japanese: 戦争
- Korean: 전쟁
- Norwegian: krig
- Polish: wojna
- Portuguese: guerra
- Romanian: război războaie
- Russian: война
- Spanish: guerra
- Swedish: krig
- Thai: สงคราม
- Turkish: savaş
- Ukrainian: війна
- Vietnamese: chiến tranh
Example Sentences Including 'war'
A decade later she was among the first to enter Dachau after its liberation and ended the war bathing in Hitler's own tub.Glasgow Herald (2001)
After the war , when English international rugby players wanted eggs for their breakfasts they were told to bring their own.Glasgow Herald (2001)
Although she lived in France after the war , she longed to hear news about the bookshop and gossip about its eccentric customers.Country Life (2004)
British war correspondent W. H. Russell's reports in The Times shocked Britain.THE MEDICAL MYSTERIES E-OMNIBUS (2001)
Not surprisingly, Adrina's first appearance at the war council caused a stir, even more than Tristan's inclusion.TREASON KEEP (2001)
Russia, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have urged Baghdad to bend to international pressure in order to avoid war.Irish Times (2002)
She's heading for Talabar to bring her father's cannon into the war.TREASON KEEP (2001)
The vast plain had been transformed from a war camp into a thing of beauty.TREASON KEEP (2001)
Would he set any limits to Britain's support for the US-led war on international terror?Irish Times (2002)
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