War
[wɔː] or [wɔr]
Definition
(noun.) a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; 'the war on poverty'; 'the war against crime'.
(noun.) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; 'thousands of people were killed in the war'.
(noun.) an active struggle between competing entities; 'a price war'; 'a war of wits'; 'diplomatic warfare'.
(noun.) a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; 'war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring'.
(verb.) make or wage war.
Editor: Manuel--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Ware; aware.
(n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
(n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
(n.) Instruments of war.
(n.) Forces; army.
(n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.
(n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
(v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
(v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
(v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.
(v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
Edited by Lelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hostilities, fighting, warfare, ULTIMA RATIO REGUM, the last argument of kings.[2]. Art of war, profession of arms.
v. n. [1]. Make war, carry on war.[2]. Contend, fight, strive.
Checker: Marge
Definition
adj. (Spens.) worse.—v.t. (Scot.) to defeat.
n. a state of opposition or contest: a contest between states carried on by arms: open hostility: the profession of arms: (rare) army warlike preparations warlike outfit.—v.i. to make war: to contend: to fight:—pr.p. war′ring; pa.t. and pa.p. warred.—ns. War′-cry a cry or signal used in war; War′-dance a dance engaged in by some savage tribes before going to war; War′fāre armed contest military life; War′fārer; War′fāring; War′-horse a charger a horse used in battle.—adj. War′like fond of war pertaining to or threatening war: martial military.—ns. War′likeness; War′man (rare) a warrior.—adj. War′-marked (Shak.) experienced in war.—ns. War′-mong′er (Spens.) a mercenary soldier; War′-off′ice the English military bureau or department; War′-paint paint applied to the face and person by savages indicating that they are going to war: (slang) full-dress equipment; War′-path among the Red Indians the path followed on a military expedition the expedition itself; War′-proof (rare) fitness to be a soldier; War′rior a soldier a veteran:—fem. War′rioress (rare); War′-ship a vessel for war; War′-song a song sung by men about to fight: a song celebrating brave deeds in war; War′-tax a tax levied for purposes of war; War′-thought (Shak.) martial deliberation.—adjs. War′-wast′ed laid waste or ravaged by war; War′-wea′ried -worn wearied worn with military service—of a veteran.—ns. War′-whoop a cry uttered by savages on going into battle; War′-wolf a medieval military engine used in defending fortresses; Man′-of-war (see Man).—War Department in Great Britain a department of the state under a Cabinet Minister the Secretary of State for War assisted by a permanent and a parliamentary under-secretary having control of everything connected with the army; War of Liberation the war of independence carried on by Prussia with the help of Russia and Great Britain against Napoleon in 1813.—Declaration of war that public announcement of war by a duly organised state or kingdom which is necessary to constitute an enemy; Declare war to announce war publicly; Holy war (see Holy); Make war to carry on hostilities; Napoleonic Wars a general name for the wars of France dating from the campaigns of Napoleon in Italy (1796) to his overthrow in 1815; Private war warfare waged between persons in their individual capacity as by duelling family feuds &c.; Sacred Wars in ancient Greek history wars against states judged guilty of sacrilege by the Amphictyonic Council; Seven weeks' war or Seven days' war the Austro-Prussian war of 1866.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of war, foretells unfortunate conditions in business, and much disorder and strife in domestic affairs. For a young woman to dream that her lover goes to war, denotes that she will hear of something detrimental to her lover's character. To dream that your country is defeated in war, is a sign that it will suffer revolution of a business and political nature. Personal interest will sustain a blow either way. If of victory you dream, there will be brisk activity along business lines, and domesticity will be harmonious.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. 'In time of peace prepare for war ' has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means not merely that all things earthly have an end—that change is the one immutable and eternal law—but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his 'stately pleasure dome '—when that is to say there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu—that he
Typist: Nadine
Unserious Contents or Definition
A wholesale means of making heroes which, if planned in a small way, would produce only murderers.
Checker: Sherman
Examples
- What a fine town but how the _buena gente_, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What do you think of the war really? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This is the arm of which so much was heard during the recent war with Spain, and against which our soldiers had to contend. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Maybe the war will be over, Aymo said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Then Prussia declared war in support of Austria, and the allied forces, under the Duke of Brunswick, prepared to invade France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Outwardly it is very like the world before the war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was made in America, and he fought the Indian wars and the war of the Revolution with it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Israel wars with Judah and the neighbouring states; forms alliances first with one and then with the other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Wilt thou take heart of grace, and go to the wars with me? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They had always cracked in other wars. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A century later the same urgency was to sweep Germany into a series of bloody Peasant Wars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But this great naval power could not, in either of those wars, be owing to the act of navigation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It moved every feeling of wonder and awe, that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There are several villages of them, but they have increased in numbers but little in many years since they are always warring among themselves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Damon, a strange warring takes place in my mind occasionally. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They never achieved any unity in India; their history is a history of warring kings and republics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the same tendency to break up into a number of warring states, and the same eruption of barbaric rulers, was displayed in East and West alike. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They seem to have been divided up into city states, which warred among themselves and maintained for many centuries their military capacity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Nancy