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First World War
First World War n. the war which began on 28 July 1914 with hostilities between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and ultimately involved the majority of the nations of the world, suspended by armistice on 11 November 1918.Earlier called the Great War.
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1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 399 The giant-maids..took part in the first world-war on the side hostile to Odin.
1914 E. Haeckel in Indianapolis Star 27 Sept. 37/1 There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared ‘European war’..will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.]
1918 C. à C. Repington Diary 10 Sept. in First World War (1920) II. xxxvii. 391 To call it The German War was too much flattery for the Boche. I suggested The World War as a shade better title, and finally we mutually agreed to call it The First World War in order to prevent the millennium folk from forgetting that the history of the world was the history of war.
1931 S. Jameson Richer Dust xix. 552 The salvage of what a dear dead and let us piously hope well-damned colonel preferred to call the First World War.
1933 L. Stallings (title) The First World War: a photographic history.
1938 Life 28 May 2/3 As a student of, and participant in, The First World War, or Dress Rehearsal.
1958 Listener 19 June 1020/2 The outbreak of the first world war in the present century.
2011 Daily Tel. 20 Sept. 20/1 Women who, during the First World War, would approach any man who hadn't joined up and present him with a white feather.
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