English noun: war |
| 1. | war (act) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy |
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| Samples | Thousands of people were killed in the war.
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| Synonyms | warfare |
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| Broader (hypernym) | action, military action |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bioattack, biologic attack, biological attack, biological warfare, BW, chemical operations, chemical warfare, civil war, hot war, information warfare, international jihad, IW, jehad, jihad, limited war, psychological warfare, war of nerves, world war |
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| Instance hyponym | Arab-Israeli War, Arab-Israeli War, Balkan Wars, Boer War, Chino-Japanese War, Crimean War, Franco-Prussian War, French and Indian War, Gulf War, Gulf War, Hundred Years' War, Iran-Iraq War, Korean War, Macedonian War, Mexican War, Napoleonic Wars, Peloponnesian War, Persian Gulf War, Punic War, Russo-Japanese War, Seven Years' War, Sino-Japanese War, Six Day War, Six-Day War, Spanish War, Spanish-American War, Thirty Years' War, Trojan War, Vietnam, Vietnam War, War of 1812, War of Greek Independence, War of the Austrian Succession, War of the Grand Alliance, War of the League of Augsburg, War of the Roses, War of the Spanish Succession, Wars of the Roses, Yom Kippur War |
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| Part holonym | aggression, armed combat, battle, combat, conflict, engagement, fight |
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| Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine |
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| Domain category members | de-escalation, despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, side, spoiler, state of war, war |
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| 2. | war (state) a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply |
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| Samples | War was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring.
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| Synonyms | state of war |
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| Broader (hypernym) | antagonism, enmity, hostility |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | proxy war |
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| Domain category | war, warfare |
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| Antonyms | peace |
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| 3. | war (act) an active struggle between competing entities |
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| Samples | A price war.
A war of wits.
Diplomatic warfare.
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| Synonyms | warfare |
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| Broader (hypernym) | battle, conflict, struggle |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | drug war, trench warfare |
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| 4. | war (act) a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious |
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| Samples | The war on poverty.
The war against crime.
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| Broader (hypernym) | campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
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