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edit wars

edit wars is the plural of edit war.

edit wars is the third-person singular simple present indicative of edit war.

Meaning of edit war

Noun

edit war (plural edit wars)

  1. (wiki jargon) A dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work where opposing editors continually change the page without discussion.
    • As with dinner-table discussions, it is best to avoid editing articles about politics or religion unless one wishes to become entrenched in a perpetual edit war.

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Questions about edit wars

What is edit wars the plural of?
Edit wars is the plural of edit war.

Words near edit wars in the dictionary

  1. edit war
  2. edit warred
  3. edit warring
  4. edit warrior
  5. edit warriors
  6. edit wars
  7. edit-a-thon
  8. edit-a-thons
  9. edit-war
  10. edit-warred
  11. edit-warring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: edit wars (page history and authors); edit war (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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