Definitions for civil war
civ·il war

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1. civil warnoun

   a war between factions in the same country

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. civil warnoun

   A war fought between factions of the inhabitants of a single country, or the citizens of a single republic.

2. Etymology: Calque of Latin bellum civile, in English from 1651 in reference to the English Civil War,

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1. Civil War

   Civil War is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses which originally appeared on the 1990 compilation Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal, and later on the 1991 album Use Your Illusion II. It is a protest song on war, referring to all war as "civil war" and stating that war only "feeds the rich while it buries the poor". In the song, lead singer Axl Rose asks, "What's so civil about war, anyway?" The song was originally released in 1990, when it peaked at number four on the US Album Rock Tracks chart (now the Mainstream Rock chart). It was then released worldwide in 1993, reaching number one in Poland, number two in Spain, and also charting in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and New Zealand. Several regions instead saw the release of The "Civil War" EP, including Ireland and the United Kingdom. The EP reached number 11 on the UK Singles Chart and number 15 on the Irish Singles Chart.

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1. Civil war

   A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same nation state or republic, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly united nation state. The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies. The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. A civil war is a high-intensity conflict, often involving regular armed forces, that is sustained, organized and large-scale. Civil wars may result in large numbers of casualties and the consumption of significant resources. Civil wars since the end of World War II have lasted on average just over four years, a dramatic rise from the one-and-a-half year average of the 1900-1944 period. While the rate of emergence of new civil wars has been relatively steady since the mid-19th century, the increasing length of those wars resulted in increasing numbers of wars ongoing at any one time. For example, there were no more than five civil wars underway simultaneously in the first half of the 20th century, while over 20 concurrent civil wars were occurring at the end of the Cold War, before a significant decrease as conflicts strongly associated with the superpower rivalry came to an end. Since 1945, civil wars have resulted in the deaths of over 25 million people, as well as the forced displacement of millions more. Civil wars have further resulted in economic collapse; Burma, Uganda and Angola are examples of nations that were considered to have promising futures before being engulfed in civil wars.

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1. civil war

   That between subjects of the same realm, or between factions of the same state.

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1. civil war

   See War, Civil.

2. civil war

   A war between different sections or parties of the same country or nation.

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1. civil war

   Song lyrics by civil war -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by civil war on the Lyrics.com website.

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How to pronounce civil war?

1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of civil war in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of civil war in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of civil war in a Sentence

1. Leonce Ngendakumana:

   That U.N. resolution brings nothings to us, we don't want U.N. police but U.N. peacekeepers who would prevent Burundi from sliding into another civil war.

2. Joe Biden:

   I know there's a lot of rumors and speculation as to, is the other guy going to try to postpone the election in November and all that. There's no need to do that, you know, we voted in the middle of the Civil War, we voted in the middle of World War One and Two.

3. Berta Valle:

   Let's remember that Nicaragua is a country that went through a very painful civil war that destroyed the nation. More than 50,000 people died. Some people would like to say that with regimes like these are bound to end with violence, and that's precisely what we don't want. We don't want any more bloodshed.

4. Anthony Scaramucci:

   We need more civility and less civil war; more discourse and less coarseness.

5. Nobel Committee:

   The quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 when the democratization process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest, it established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. It was thus instrumental in enabling Tunisia, in the space of a few years, to establish a constitutional system of government guaranteeing fundamental rights for the entire population, irrespective of gender, political conviction or religious belief.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=civil war
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Civil_War
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=civil war
5. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=civil war
6. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html