Meaning of World War | Babel Free

Definitions

1. World War I.
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2. A war involving the major nations of the world.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[…] Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated.”

“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.”

“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.”

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