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CW

CW is the initialism of Civil War.

CW is the ellipsis of ACW.

CW is the initialism of calendar week.

CW is the initialism of chemical warfare.

CW is the initialism of classwork.

CW is the initialism of content warning.

Meaning of Civil War

Proper noun

the Civil War

  1. Any of several civil wars, taken specifically.
    • Puritans had always been only a minority, albeit one with disproportionate influence. The Civil War of the 1640s, which culminated in the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the establishment of a republic, gave them supreme power.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 46

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Meaning of chemical warfare

Noun

chemical warfare (uncountable)

  1. The use of toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons of war, through the intentional exposure of enemy forces to such substances.

Forms of CW

pluralCWs

Origin of CW

Abbreviation

Phrases with CW

Questions about CW

What is CW the initialism of?
CW is the initialism of Civil War.

Words near CW in the dictionary

  1. CVTs
  2. CVV
  3. CVVs
  4. CVX
  5. CVZ
  6. CW
  7. CW complex
  8. CW complexes
  9. CW generator
  10. CW generators
  11. CWA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CW (page history and authors); Civil War (page history and authors); chemical warfare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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