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World war

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    World War I. dated

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a war in which the major nations of the world are involved wordnet

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