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War and Peace

War and Peace proper noun: a text or utterance of remarkable length or complexity.

Proper noun

War and Peace

  1. (attributive, often) A text or utterance of remarkable length or complexity.
    • You get an exhaustive, War and Peace-style description of your system.1998, Bill Camarda, Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, IDG Books Worldwide
    • She proceeded to launch into this War and Peace–length speech about honesty and community and respect and all those other topics that seriously get on my nerves.2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber, Random House Australia

Origin of War and Peace

From the title of the novel War and Peace by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, noted for its considerable length.

Questions about War and Peace

What does War and Peace mean?
War and Peace means a text or utterance of remarkable length or complexity.
What part of speech is War and Peace?
War and Peace is a proper noun.

Words near War and Peace in the dictionary

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  3. Waquita
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  5. war
  6. War and Peace
  7. war artist
  8. war artists
  9. war babies
  10. war baby
  11. War Between the States

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