Definition Definition

war - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'war' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . War [ a.]
- Ware; aware.
2 . War [ n.]
- A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
- A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
- Instruments of war.
- Forces; army.
- The profession of arms; the art of war.
- a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
3 . War [ v. i.]
- To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
- To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
4 . War [ v. t.]
- To make war upon; to fight.
- To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

Meaning of 'war' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . war [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an active struggle between competing entities
Example in sentence:
  • a price war;
  • a war of wits;
  • diplomatic warfare
Meaning (2):
- a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
Example in sentence:
  • the war against crime;
  • the war on poverty
Meaning (3):
- the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
Example in sentence:
  • thousands of people were killed in the war
Meaning (4):
- a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
Example in sentence:
  • war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring

Nearby Words:

war-beaten warble warbled warbler warbling warblingly warburg's tincture ward ward-corn wardcorps

See 'war' also in:

Dictionary.com Google Translator Wikipedia.com Merriam Webster

Related Definitions

  • Backward Integration
    Backward Integration refers to the process through which a corporation buys or joins with other companies that produce the raw materials it needs to make its final outcome.
  • Forward Integration
    Forward Integration is a strategic approach that entails a type of downhill vertical integration in which a firm owns and manages trade and commerce that are upstream of its industry's value chain...
  • Warranty Deed
    The warranty deed is a legal document that demonstrates guarantees or declarations that the owner officially possesses the property...
  • Worker adjustment and retraining notification act (WARN)
    The 1989 law that requires employers with 100 or more full-time employees to give affected employees 60 days’ written notice of a plant or office closing or other mass layoffs, covers nonprofit
  • Warehouse showroom
    Retail stores with sizable inventories housed in large buildings and dealing in volume while providing limited service.
  • Warehousing
    The receiving, storing, and shipping activities involved in the physical distribution of goods.
  • Implied warranty
    Implied warranty legally imposed on the seller; ensures that the seller owns the products and that they will serve the purpose for which they
  • War clause
    War clause is a restriction in a life insurance policy that excludes payment if the insured dies as a direct result of war.
  • Backwardation
    Backwardation is a market condition in which futures prices are lower in the distant delivery months than in the nearest delivery month. This may occur when the costs of storing the product until eventual delivery are effectively subtracted from the price today. The opposite
  • Backward chaining
    Backward chaining, in which the inference engine begins with a goal, or hypothesis, and searches for data to support this goal. Since it is the goal that ...

Categories

Browse Dictionary