war
IPA: wˈɔr
noun
- (uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
- (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
- (countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
- (countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly
- (chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.
- (business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
- (crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
- (Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
- (obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
- (obsolete) Armed forces.
- (uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
- Preceded by the: designating a particularly notable war.
- (obsolete) World War I.
- (chiefly Britain, informal) World War II.
- The personification of war, often depicted in armour and riding a red horse; the red rider.
- A city in West Virginia, United States.
- Initialism of White Aryan Resistance.
- (computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Web application archive (a Java archive file)
- (military, historical) Initialism of Winchester Automatic Rifle.
- (computing) Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.
- (sports) Acronym of wins above replacement.
verb
- (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
- (transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
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Examples of "war" in Sentences
- He took part in military campaigns and internecine wars.
- The result of the war was a consolidation of the Dutch power.
- He served as a military stenographer in the Union Army in the Civil War.
- The reactions on women in military were ambivalent during the Civil War.
- One strategy of the war is to destabalize the nations of the middle east.
- The end of the war drastically reduced military investment in the island.
- Capt Ransom remained in the Middle Military Division to the end of the war.
- The art of war has also been applied to business and managerial strategies.
- Following the end of the war the School of Military Engineering was disbanded.
- During the First World War the infirmary became the Lewisham Military Hospital.