War

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Antonyms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 Usage notes 1.3.5 See also 1.4 Verb 1.5 Anagrams 2 Breton 2.1 Preposition 3 German 3.1 Verb form 4 Kurdish 4.1 Noun

English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman werre, from Old Northern French werre, a variant of Old French guerre, from Old Franconian werra, ultimately from Indo-European *werza-, meaning "mixture" or "confusion."

Pronunciation

• IPA: /woʊr/, /wɔː(r)/
• SAMPA: /wO:(r)/
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Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

Noun

War (plural Wars)

1. 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 organization which can surrender, or collapse, thus ending the war.
2. (civil war) An armed conflict between two or more different factions within the same country.
3. (rhetorical) A campaign against something. 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

• peace

Related terms

civil war cold war go to war prisoner of war, P.O.W. or POW war between the sexes, etc. Jocular. war bonnet war bride war chest war crime war criminal war cry war game war paint or warpaint

war party war room war torn war zone warfare warhead warlord warmonger warpath warring warrior wartime world war

Translations

Albanian: luftë f Arabic: حرب (ħarb) m. Breton: brezel m. Catalan: guerra f. Chinese: 战争, 戰爭 (zhànzhèng) Chiricahua: dishbá (I start off to war) Croatian: rat m Czech: válka f., vojna f. (archaic) Dutch: oorlog m. Esperanto: milito Estonian: sõda Finnish: sota French: guerre f. Frisian: oarloch, kriich German: Krieg m. Greek: πόλεμος (pólemos) m. Guarani: ñorairõ Hebrew: מלחמה (milkhama) m. Hungarian: háború Icelandic: stríð n. Ido: milito Indonesian: perang Interlingua: guerra, bello Irish: cogadh Italian: guerra f. Japanese: 戦 (いくさ, ikusa), 戦争 (せんそう, sensō) Jèrriais: dgèrre f.

Korean: 전쟁 [戰爭] (jeonjaeng) Kurdish: ceng f., şerr m. Latin: bellum n., guerra f. Latvian: karš m. (sometimes - kaŗš) Northern Sami: soahti Norwegian: krig m. Old English: wīġ n. Persian: جنگ (jang) Polish: wojna f. Portuguese: guerra f. Romanian: război n., răzbel n. (archaic) Russian: война (vojná) f. Slovak: vojna f. Slovene: vojna f. Spanish: guerra f. Swedish: krig n. (1,3), inbördeskrig (2) n. Tagalog: gera, gyera, digmaan Telugu: యుద్ధం (yuddhaM) (1,3); ఠంతర్యుద్ధం (aMtaryuddhaM) (2) Thai: สงคราม (sŏng-kraam) Tupinambá: marana Turkish: savaş, muharebe (obsolete), harp (obsolete), cenk (obsolete) Yiddish: מלחמה (milkhome), קריג (krig)

Usage notes

The use of war in the rhetorical sense can lead to possibly dangerous changes in attitude. Crime is normally controlled by using civilian forces—the police—in a restrained manner, with minimal effect on uninvolved parties. True war is waged by using unrestricted lethal force on an enemy, ideally without deliberate attack on uninvolved civilian parties, but with their safety secondary to defeating enemy forces. If a campaign against some form of crime is described verbally as a war, the use of weapons and tactics totally inappropriate for fighting crime, and harm to innocent parties, becomes more acceptable.

See also

• battle

Verb

war

1. To engage in conflict with a foe.

   His emotions war with his intellect, making him conflicted.

Anagrams

• raw

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Breton

Preposition

war

1. on

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German

Verb form

war

1. past of sein, was

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Kurdish

Noun

war

1. placede:war

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