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WW2

WW2 is the abbreviation of World War II.

Meaning of World War II

Proper noun

World War II

  1. (historical) The war from 1939 to 1945 of the Allied forces, including the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, France, and China, against the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan.
    • As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War...1939 November 10, “Following The War”, in The Chart, volume I, number 1, Joplin, Missouri: Joplin Junior College, page 4, column 1

Forms of WW2

alternative formWWII

Questions about WW2

What is WW2 the abbreviation of?
WW2 is the abbreviation of World War II.

Words near WW2 in the dictionary

  1. WVS
  2. WVTR
  3. WVU
  4. ww
  5. WW1
  6. WW2
  7. WW3
  8. WWA
  9. WWAN
  10. WWC
  11. WWDC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: WW2 (page history and authors); World War II (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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