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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.
Wikipedia
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
Last year, the economy shrunk more than any other since the end of World War II. With the growth that the CBO projects, it will be years before the country reaches full employment again.
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 Enola Gay was the most significant aircraft of World War Two, any records of that mission would be significant.
We are appealing to the people to go out to the streets and centers of the cities, laying flowers at monuments dedicated to this victory and to the heroes of the Second World War.And we realize that we are doing this for the moment under an occupation regime which has launched a war against its own population, we feel like victors.
President Trump and the nation's governors have partnered up in the greatest public and private sector mobilization effort since [World War Two], while Biden has done nothing but sit on the sidelines fear-mongering and rooting against America's success.
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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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