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world war

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. world warnoun

    a war in which the major nations of the world are involved

Wiktionary

  1. world warnoun

    A war involving the major nations of the world.

  2. Etymology: A calque of Weltkrieg (from 1904), English since 1909.

Wikipedia

  1. World war

    A world war is an international conflict which involves all or most of the world's major powers. Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although historians have also described other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Cold War and the War on terror.

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  1. world war

    A world war refers to a large-scale conflict that involves multiple nations from different parts of the world. Its impact has significant global implications, affecting political, social, and economic aspects on an international scale. The two most known examples are World War I and World War II, which have both profound and lasting effects on the course of modern history.

Wikidata

  1. World war

    A world war is a war affecting most of the world's most powerful and populous countries. World wars span multiple countries on multiple continents, with battles fought in multiple theaters. The term is usually applied to the two conflicts of unprecedented scale that occurred during the 20th century: World War I and World War II. However, it is also sometimes applied to earlier wars and to a hypothetical future war.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of world war in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of world war in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of world war in a Sentence

  1. Michael Gilday:

    I’ll tell you why I’m particularly proud of this sailor, so, her grandfather served during World War II, and he was gay and he was ostracized in the very institution that she not only joined and is proud to be a part of, but she volunteered to deploy on Ford and she’ll likely deploy again next month when Ford goes back to sea.

  2. Stan Shaw:

    Defacing it by taking the arms off or anything of that nature -- it's just a slap in the face for World War I veterans, i don't see how a static cross can coerce anybody into a state religion.

  3. Jinshiro Motoyama:

    The experiences of World War II that our grandparents lived through feels distant to us as we didn't experience it, we need to think of a way of inheriting this collective memory while moving forward.

  4. David Ferriero:

    He's served in World War II( in both the European and Pacific Theaters), negotiated for the U.S. in the Cold War, fought in Vietnam, worked in Congress, and led the space program.

  5. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool/AFP:

    This is and remains a Russian frontal assault on the rules-based international order that has been in place for 80 years … since the end of World War II, ukraine matters.


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