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future war

future war noun: a subgenre of science fiction which involves warfare and how it might be conducted in the future.

Noun

future war (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of science fiction which involves warfare and how it might be conducted in the future.
    • Other late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century novelists utilized thinly disguised Edison-surrogates in a range of future war books.1997, Brooks Landon, Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 44

Questions about future war

What does future war mean?
Future war means a subgenre of science fiction which involves warfare and how it might be conducted in the future.
What part of speech is future war?
Future war is a noun.

Words near future war in the dictionary

  1. future shock
  2. future simple
  3. future studies
  4. future tense
  5. future tenses
  6. future war
  7. future-proof
  8. future-proofed
  9. future-proofing
  10. future-proofs
  11. futured

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