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war (English)

Alternative forms

warre

obsolete

Etymology

From - werre|lang=enm, from Late - werre|werre, wyrre|lang=ang "armed conflict" from - werre|lang=fro (compare - - - guerre, gwerre|lang=fro), of - frk * "confusion, strife" from - werzō||werza-|mixture, mix-up, confusion|lang=en, from - wers-|to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh|lang=en. Akin to - -

Tyska - verwirren

"to confuse"), - - - |to confuse, perplex|lang=osx, - - |confusion, disarray|lang=nl, - - - wyrsa, wiersa|lang=ang "worse", - - - lang=non "worse" (originally "confounded, mixed up"). Compare - versus||against, turned|lang=la, past participle of - |turn, change, overthrow, destroy|lang=la

Engelska - worse

, wurst.

Pronunciation

- /wɔː/,

/wO:/

- Audio (UK)

- /wɔɹ/,

/wOr\/

en-us-war.ogg

- some dialects

Rhymes: ɔː(ɹ)

Noun

s|-

organize|Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between country|countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.

* 1917, w:Henry_Ford|Henry_Ford, My Life and Work, Chapter 17:

*: Nobody can deny that war is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.

* 2007, Carlos Ramirez-Faria, Concise Encyclopaedia of World History:

*: Germany declared war on France, who reciprocated, on August 3 1939, and England declared war on Germany on August 4, when Belgium was already under invasion.

A particular conflict of this kind.

* 1865, w:Herman_Melville|Herman_Melville, "The Surrender at Appomattox":

*: All human tribes glad token see

*: In the close of the wars of w:Ulysses_S._Grant|Grant and w:Robert_E._Lee|Lee.

* 1999, w:Bill_Clinton|Bill_Clinton at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C, November 8 1999:

*: A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.

By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.

# A campaign against something.

#: The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.

#: The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.

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countable

A bout of fierce competition in trade.

#: I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war, getting my car for far less than it's worth.

#: The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war, each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.

A particular card_game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.

Antonyms

peace

Derived terms

Terms derived from war

all's_fair_in_love_and_war

anti-war

civil_war

cold_war

conventional_war

declaration_of_war

dynastic_war

edit_war

flame_war

gas_war

go_to_war

holy_war

hot_war

inter-war

laws_of_war

man_of_war, man-of-war, man-o-war, man-o'-war

man-o'-war_suit

nuclear_war

perpetual_war

pissing_war

Portuguese_man-of-war

post-war

pre-war

price_war

prisoner_of_war, P.O.W., POW, P.W., PW

pro-war

proxy_war

revert_war

ship_of_war

spoils_of_war

state_of_war

theater_of_war, theatre_of_war

total_war

trade_war

tug_of_war

turf_war

undeclared_war

war-

war_between_the_sexes

war_bond

war_bonnet

war_bride

War_Cabinet

war_chalk

war_chest

war_child

war_crime

war_criminal

war_cry

war_dance

war-dial

war-drive

warfare

war_game, wargame

war_groom

war_hammer

warhead

war_hound

warlord

war_machine

warmonger

war_of_conquest

war_of_nerves

war_of_words

war_paint or warpaint

war_party

warpath

war_reparations

war-ridden

warring

warrior

war_room

war_story

wartime

war_to_end_all_wars

war_torn, war-torn

war_veteran

war_whoop

war_widow

war_zone

world_war

World_War_One

World_War_Two

Translations

conflict involving organized use of arms

Alabama: ittilbachoba

Albanska - luftë

Arabiska - حرب

Armenian - պատերազմ|tr=paterazm

Azeri - müharibə, - hərb

Baluchi - جنگ|tr=jang

Vitryska - вайна

Bosnian - rat|m

Breton: brezel

Bulgariska - война

Burmese - စစ်|tr=sit|sc=Mymr

Catalan: guerra

Chinese:

: Mandarin - 戰爭|sc=Hani, - 战争|tr=zhànzhēng|sc=Hani

Chiricahua: dishbá

I start off to war

Crimean Tatar: muarebe or cenk

Kroatiska - rat

Tjeckiska - boj

(fight)

Danska - krig

Holländska - oorlog

, krijg

Esperanto - milito|xs=Esperanto

Estniska - sõda

Faroese - kríggj|n

Finska - sota

Franska - guerre

Georgian - ომი|tr=omi|sc=Geor

Tyska - Krieg

Grekiska - πόλεμος

Guaraní: ñorairõ

Hebrew - מלחמה|f|tr=milkhama|alt=מִלְחָמָה|sc=Hebr

Hindiska - युद्ध

, जंग

Ungerska - háború

Hunsrik - kriich

Isländska - stríð

, styrjöld

Ido: milito

Indonesiska - perang

Interlingua: guerra, bello

Irländska - cogadh

Italienska - guerra

Japanska - 戦争

, 戦

Jèrriais: dgèrre

Kazakh - соғыс|sc=Cyrl

Khmer - ចំបាំង|tr=jombəng|sc=Khmr, - សង្គ្រាម|tr=songkrīəm|sc=Khmr

Komi - тыш

Koreanska - 전쟁

()

Kurdish - ceng|f, - şerr|m

Lao - ສົງຄາມ|tr=songkhaam|sc=Laoo

Latgalian - kars|m, - vaidi

Latin - bellum|n

Lettiska - cīņas

Litauiska - karas

Livonian - suodā

Low German - Orlog|m

Luxembourgish - Krich

Makedonska - војна

Malay: perang, peperangan

Maltese: gwerra

mi

Marathi - युद्ध|n|tr=yuddha|sc=Deva|xs=Marathi

Mongolian - дайн|tr=dajn|sc=Cyrl

Nahuatl: yaoyotl

Navajo - baaʼ

Northern Sami: soahti

Norska - krig

Old English - wig|n|alt=wīġ|xs=Old English

Pashto - جنګ|tr=jang|sc=ps-Arab, - جګړه|tr=jangṙa|sc=ps-Arab

Persiska - جنگ

Polska - wojna

Portugisiska - guerra

Romanian: război

archaic

Ryska - война

Sanskrit - युद्ध|tr=yuddha|sc=Deva

Scottish Gaelic: cogadh

Serbian:

: Cyrillic: рат

: Roman: rat

Sicilian - guerra|f|xs=Sicilian

Sindhi:

جَنگِ

(jangi)

si

Slovakiska - vojna

Slovenska - vojna

Southern Altai - јуу, - јуу-чак

Spanska - guerra

Swahili - vita

Svenska - krig

Filippinska - gera

, gyera, digmaan

Tamil - போர்|tr=pōr

Thailändska - สงคราม

Tupinambá: marana

Turkiska - savaş

, muharebe - tr|harp - tr|cenk

obsolete

Ukrainska - війна

Urdu - یدھ|m|tr=yuddh|sc=ur-Arab, - جنگ|f|tr=jãṅg|sc=ur-Arab

Veps - soda

Vietnamesiska - chiến tranh

Volapük - krig, - vo|klig

Võro - sõda

Walesiska - rhyfel

West Frisian: oarloch, kriich

Jiddisch - מלחמה

, קריג

rhetorical: campaign against something

Katalanska - guerra

Chinese:

: Mandarin - 鬥爭|sc=Hani, - 斗争|tr=dòuzhēng|sc=Hani, - 挑戰|sc=Hani, - 挑战|tr=tiǎozhàn|sc=Hani

Tjeckiska - boj

Finska - sota

Grekiska - μάχη

, αγώνας

Ungerska - hadjárat

Makedonska - војна

Malaysiska - perang

Polska - walka

, wojna, bój

Portugisiska - guerra

Spanska - guerra

business competition

card game

Tjeckiska - válka

Finska - kina

Franska - bataille

Tyska - Krieg

Makedonska - војна

Norska - krig

Polska - wojna

Portugisiska - guerra

sw

: vita (noun 8)

te

: యుద్ధం (yuddhaM) (1,3); అంతర్యుద్ధం (aMtaryuddhaM) (2)

See also

battle

Verb

war|r|ed

To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).

*

1599

w:William_Shakespeare|William_Shakespeare, King Henry V, act 3, sc. 1:

*: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more . . .

*: Be copy now to men of grosser blood,

*: And teach them how to war.

* 1882, w:George_Bernard_Shaw|George_Bernard_Shaw, Cashel Byron's Profession, ch. 14:

*: This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . . , produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.

Translations

to engage in conflict

Bulgariska - започвам война

, воювам, водя война

Katalanska - guerrejar

Finska - sotia

Tyska - Krieg führen

, - de|kriegen

Latin - bellum|n

Makedonska - војува

, завојува

Polska - walczyć

, prowadzić wojna|wojnę

Ryska - воевать

Spanska - guerrear

Turkiska - çelişmek

, çatışmak

Volapük - vo|krigön, - vo|kligön

Statistics

- different|care|389|war|short|able|five

Anagrams

raw#English|raw

Rwa#English|Rwa, RWA#English|RWA

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war (Breton)

Preposition

br|preposition

on, over, ...

war ar sizhun – during the week

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war (Dutch)

Pronunciation

Rhymes: ɑr|lang=nl

Noun

c|warren|-

tangle, mess

confusion, disarray

a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish (e.g. by tangling them up in nets)

Derived terms

in_de_war_brengen

verwarren

ontwarren

warrig

warhoofd

warboel

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war (German)

Pronunciation

- lang=de

- audio

- lang=de

Verb

war

- 1|s|v

* 1788: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont

*: Ich hätte ihn heiraten können, und glaube, ich war nie in ihn verliebt.

*:: I could have married him; yet I believe I was never really in love with him.

- 3|s|v

* 1788: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont

*: Gott tröst' ihn! Das war ein Herr!

*:: God bless him! He was a king indeed!

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war (Kurdish)

Noun

place

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war (Low German)

Alternative forms

Low Prussian

wahr

Etymology

Tyska - -

wahr.

Adjective

nds|adjective

- lang=nds true

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war (Luxembourgish)

Verb

lb|verb form

- |1|s|pret|ind|lang=lb

- |3|s|pret|ind|lang=lb

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war (Old High German)

Adjective

wār

true

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war (Tocharian B)

Noun

txb|noun

water

ang:war simple:war

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