Definitions for world war
world war

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. world warnoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. world warnoun

   A war involving the major nations of the world.

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

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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.

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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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How to pronounce world war?

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   Karen

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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. President Biden:

   That played an important role at the end of World War II, that played a crucial role in the Reagan victory strategy to bring down the Soviet Union, and it played a vital role in our sanctions policies over the last decade against Iran.

2. David Cohen:

   Society after World War II discovered a new passion to solve social problems and include the excluded, and all sorts of institutions( including orphanages, institutions for mentally retarded persons, homes for unwed mothers, youth detention centers, etc.) were phased out, with their residents often in effect kicked out from where they had lived for years.

3. Omar Bradley:

   Wilkie also served in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld, worked for Condoleezza Rice and had years of experience on Capitol Hill working for Sens. Thom Tillis and Trent Lott. In his new office, Wilkie now hangs a portrait of Gen. Omar Bradley, the first secretary of Veterans Affairs after World War II, and has chosen Bradley's desk as his own. Omar Bradley was tasked with changing VA to accommodate 11 million soldiers coming off active duty and into Veterans Affairs ranks, he was really a visionary.

4. Arlan Ettinger:

   It's the best (collection) in the world, it appears that from the very beginning it was always looked at as the most comprehensive assemblage of posters of many different nationalities pertaining to their involvement in World War One.

5. Brian Stelter:

   That was a logical move when, you know, there was this world war. I think now the message is, this is a global franchise, this is a franchise looking to the future, and that kind of ethnonationalism, you know, perhaps is not the right style going forward.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=world war
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/World_War
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=world war