War
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /wɔː(r)/
- SAMPA: /wO:(r)/
Etymology
- War comes from the Middle English warant or warre, which arose from the Old French werre, from the Germanic Indo-European werza-, meaning "mixture" or "confusion." [1]
Noun
war (plural: wars)
- A conflict involving the organized use of arms and physical force between countries or other large scale armed groups. The warring parties hold territory, which they can win or lose; and each has a leading person or organisation which can surrender, or collapse, thus ending the war.
- (civil war) an armed conflict between two or more different factions within the same country.
- (rhetorical) a campaign of some sort. E.g., the war on drugs is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs; the war on terror is a campaign against terrorist crime.
Antonyms
Translations
- Arabic : حرب
- Breton: brezel m
- Catalan : Guerra f
- Chinese : 战争 /戰爭(zhan4zheng1)
- Czech: válka f
- válka dělá z lidi blby war turns people into morons—Czech proverb
- Dutch : oorlog m
- Esperanto : milito
- Finnish: sota
- French : guerre f
- Frisian : oarloch, kriich
- German : Krieg m
- Greek : πόλεμος m
- Guarani: ñorairõ
- Hebrew : מלחמה
- Indonesian: perang
- Interlingua: guerra, bello
- Italian: guerra f
- Japanese : 戦 (いくさ, ikusa), 戦争 (せんそう, sensō)
- Korean : 전쟁 [戰爭] (jeonjaeng)
- Latin: bellum n, guerra f
- Persian: جنگ (jang)
- Polish: wojna f
- Portuguese: guerra f
- Romanian: război n, răzbel n (archaic)
- Russian: война (voyna)
- Slovak: vojna f
- Slovene: vojna f
- Spanish: guerra f
- Swedish: krig
- Tupinambá: marana
Related terms
- warfare
- warhead
- warlord
- warmonger
- warpath
- warring
- warrior
- war bonnet
- war bride
- war chest
- war crime
- war criminal
- war cry
- war game
- war paint
- war party
- war room
- war torn
- war zone
- civil war
- cold war
- go to war
- prisoner of war, P.O.W., POW
- world war
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