world war
world war noun: a war involving the major nations of the world.
Noun
world war (plural world wars)
- A war involving the major nations of the world.
- Their lips met in one long silent kiss, and a moment later he had gone to strike the first blow in the coming world-war, and to bring the beginning of sorrows on the Tyrant of the North.1894, George Griffith, The Angel of the Revolution, page 69
- […] Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 9, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus
Proper noun capitalized: World War
the World War
- World War I.
- As late as the eve of the World War, two-thirds of the farm land belonged to only a quarter of a million proprietors: princes and barons and well-to-do townsmen.1939, Carl T. Schmidt, chapter I, in The Corporate State in Action, New York: Oxford University Press, page 6
- The deep antagonism generated by the World War, however, represented a dramatic reversal for Germany’s emerging interest in cultural diplomacy, as both the Entente and the Central Powers aggressively discredited the political aims and the cultural achievements of their opponents.2015, Stephen Gross, chapter 3, in Export Empire: German Soft Power in Southeastern Europe, 1890–1945, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 121
world war meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
world war in Hindi
- a war involving the major nations of the world
- विश्वयुद्ध viśvayuddh, महासमर mahāsmar, महायुद्ध mahāyuddh, महाबेधक mahābedhak
world war in Tamil
- a war involving the major nations of the world
- உலகப் போர் ulakap pōr
world war in Urdu
- a war involving the major nations of the world
- جَن٘گِ عَظِیم jaṅg-i 'azīm, جَن٘گِ جَہانی jaṅg-i jahānī
world war in Bengali
- a war involving the major nations of the world
- বিশ্বযুদ্ধ biśśojuddho
More languagesFewer languages
- world war in Telugu
- ప్రపంచ యుద్ధము prapañca yuddhamu
- world war in Gujarati
- વિશ્વયુદ્ધ viśvayuddh
- world war in Tagalog
- digmaang pandaigdig
- world war in Arabic
- حَرْب عَالَمِيَّة ḥarb ʕālamiyya, الْحَرْب الْعَالَمِيَّة al-ḥarb al-ʕālamiyya
- world war in Malay
- perang dunia
- world war in Indonesian
- perang dunia
- world war in Thai
- สงครามโลก sǒng-kraam-lôok
- world war in Vietnamese
- chiến tranh thế giới, thế chiến
- world war in Myanmar
- ကမ္ဘာစစ် kambhacac
Forms of world war
| plural | world wars |
|---|---|
| alternative form | world-war |
Words formed from world war
Questions about world war
- What does world war mean?
- World war means a war involving the major nations of the world.
- What is world war in Hindi?
- World war in Hindi is विश्वयुद्ध (viśvayuddh), महासमर (mahāsmar), महायुद्ध (mahāyuddh). See World war meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is world war?
- World war can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of world war?
- The plural of world war is world wars.
Words near world war in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: world war (page history and authors); World War (page history and authors); વિશ્વયુદ્ધ (Gujarati) (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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