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world war
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Princeton's WordNet
world warnoun
a war in which the major nations of the world are involved
Wiktionary
world warnoun
A war involving the major nations of the world.
Etymology: A calque of Weltkrieg (from 1904), English since 1909.
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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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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.
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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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of world war in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of world war in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of world war in a Sentence
You know, the idea of asking TikTok stars how to fight Russia might sound like a joke, but remember, they said the same thing about the radio in World War II.
I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV with sticks and stones.
These allied forces that together freed us from the German yoke, and from tyranny, are the same ones that were able to build the existing multilateral structures after World War Two, we must not repeat history, and remind ourselves what was built on the basis of the war.
The next president could replace Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg or possibly [Justices] Kennedy and Scalia, it would be World War III in terms of the amount of influence that president would have.
The heroic, barrier-breaking members of the Six Six Triple Eight Six Triple Eight Battalion -- which included brave Nevada women -- played a crucial role in the operations of our armed forces during World War II, they deserve our nation's highest honors for their service. There is no better time to give them this long-overdue recognition than during Women's History Month, and I'm proud to see President Biden sign our bipartisan legislation into law.
Translations for world war
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- الحرب العالميةArabic
- сусветная вайнаBelarusian
- světová válkaCzech
- verdenskrigDanish
- WeltkriegGerman
- παγκόσμιος πόλεμοςGreek
- mondmilitoEsperanto
- guerra mundialSpanish
- maailmansotaFinnish
- guerre mondialeFrench
- wrâldoarloch, wrâldkriichWestern Frisian
- caggey dowanaghManx
- מלחמת העולםHebrew
- világháborúHungarian
- համաշխարհային պատերազմArmenian
- heimsstyrjöld, veraldarstríðIcelandic
- 世界大戦Japanese
- សង្គ្រាមលោកKhmer
- 세계 대전Korean
- светска војнаMacedonian
- wereldbrand, wereldoorlog, wereldkrijgDutch
- verdskrigNorwegian Nynorsk
- verdenskrigNorwegian
- wojna światowaPolish
- guerra mundialPortuguese
- мировая войнаRussian
- светски рат, свјетски рат, svetski rat, svjetski ratSerbo-Croatian
- svetová vojnaSlovak
- svetovna vojnaSlovene
- världskrigSwedish
- світова війнаUkrainian
- chiến tranh thế giớiVietnamese
- volakrig, volakligVolapük
- וועלט־מלחמהYiddish
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