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warn.1

Brit. /wɔː/, U.S. /wɔr/
Forms: Middle English uuerre, werre, wyrre, weorre, worre, werre, (Middle English plural werren), Middle English–1500s werr, Middle English guerre, gwerre, Middle English–1500s Scottish wer, Middle English, 1500s–1600s Scottish were, Middle English Scottish vere, Middle English, 1600s Scottish weer, Middle English–1500s Scottish veyr, Middle English Scottish veir, Middle English–1500s Scottish weire, weyr(e, Middle English–1800s Scottish weir, 1500s Scottish wair, wiar, weare, veare, 1600s Scottish ware, 1700s Scottish wear, Middle English waar, Middle English–1600s warr(e, 1500s– war.
Etymology: Late Old English (c1050) wyrre , werre , < North-eastern Old French werre = Central Old French and modern French guerre , Provençal guerra , gerra , Spanish guerra , Portuguese guerra , Italian guerra (medieval Latin werra , guerra ) < Old High German werra (Middle High German werre ) confusion, discord, strife, related to the Old High German, Old Saxon werran strong verb, to bring into confusion or discord (whence modern German wirren weak verb to confuse, perplex; the earlier verb survives in verworren participial adjective, confused), < Germanic root *werz- , *wers- , whence also worse adj.It is a curious fact that no Germanic nation in early historic times had in living use any word properly meaning ‘war’, though several words with that meaning survived in poetry, in proverbial phrases, and in compound personal names. The Romanic-speaking peoples, who were obliged to avoid the Latin bellum on account of its formal coincidence with bello- beautiful, found no nearer equivalent in Germanic than werra. In Old English the usual translation of bellum was gewin, struggle, strife. The continental Germanic languages later developed separate words for ‘war’: German krieg (whence Swedish, Danish krig), Dutch oorlog; Icelandic uses ófriðr ‘un-peace’.
1.
a. Hostile contention by means of armed forces, carried on between nations, states, or rulers, or between parties in the same nation or state; the employment of armed forces against a foreign power, or against an opposing party in the state.For civil, intestine, etc. war, see the adjectives. war to the knife [after Spanish guerra al cuchillo] , see knife n. b; war to the death, see death n. Phrases 2.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun]
MarsOE
war1154
warc1374
irona1387
guerre?a1475
Mart?a1475
(the) feat of warc1503
militia1641
sport of kings1735
emergency1958
1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1140 Þer efter wæx suythe micel uuerre betuyx þe king & Randolf eorl of Cæstre.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 20 Ah se wide him weox weorre on euch halue [L. bellis undique consurgentibus].
c1290 Holy Rood 336 in S. Eng. Leg. 11 Sethþe þare cam an Aumperour þat hiet costantin; In weorre and bataylle he was so muche þat þare-of nas no fin.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1321 Þe..king nis to preisi noȝt Þat in time of worre as a lomb is boþe mek & milde, & in time of pes as leon boþe cruel & wilde.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 226 Wote no wighte what werre is þere þat pees regneth.
1421 J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep 425 in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems (1903) trs. 33 Thou Causist werre and seist thu louest pees.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 537 Whanne therupon hangith ceesing of greet werre and making of greet pees.
1462 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) Oct. 720 The said Erle shal haue the iijrds of all wynnyngs of werre won or gotten by the said Cristofre.
c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 462 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 163 Iosaphus, prince wes & als ledare of þat towne, bath in pese & vere.
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 196 in Poems (1981) 117 Ane horne he blew..Quhilk all this warld with weir hes maid to wag.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 36/2 Richarde Duke of Yorke..beganne not by warre, but by lawe, to challenge the crown.
1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 218 Except sic change and fortoun of weare as salbe commoun and alike to bayth.
1613 J. Saris Jrnl. in Voy. Japan (1900) 54 The prince of Tidore, whoe had beene out in warr, and was retorned with 100 Ternatans heades.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. viii. 36 These Gates must not be shut, But in the Night, or in the time of Warre . View more context for this quotation
a1674 J. Milton To Ld. Fairfax in Lett. State (1694) p. xlvi For what can War, but Acts of War still breed, Till injur'd Truth from Violence be freed.
1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. iii. §16 The State of War is a State of Enmity and Destruction.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 147 Mighty Cæsar, thund'ring from afar, Seeks on Euphrates Banks the Spoils of War . View more context for this quotation
1728 A. Ramsay Lochaber i The dangers attending on wear.
1759 B. Porteus Death 179 War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. vii. 250 In order to make war completely effectual, it is necessary with us in England that it be publicly declared and duly proclaimed by the king's authority.
1846 Congressional Globe 14 May 808/1 It puts it in the power of any military squad..to put this nation in a state of war. The killing of people is not war. In order to constitute war between nations, that killing must be sanctioned by the war-making power.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. viii. 551 Formerly religion had been the cause of war, and had also been the pretext under which it was conducted.
1871 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1876) v. 101 War is one of these rights, because under the division of mankind into distinct nations it becomes a necessity.
Personified.1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) lvi Lastly stoode Warre in glitteryng armes yclad, With visage grym.c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas i. in Wks. (1898) I. 37 Bloody warre, the mistres of debait.1803 W. Wordsworth Addr. Kilchurn Castle 1 Child of loud-throated War!
b. transferred and figurative. Applied poetically or rhetorically to any kind of active hostility or contention between living beings, or of conflict between opposing forces or principles. Also: a loud or confused demonstration.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun]
i-winc888
wrestlingc890
fightc1000
flitec1000
teenOE
winOE
ungrithlOE
wara1200
cockingc1225
strife?c1225
strivingc1275
struta1300
barratc1300
thro1303
battlec1375
contentionc1384
tuggingc1440
militationa1460
sturtc1480
bargain1487
bargaining1489
distrifea1500
concertation1509
hold1523
conflict1531
ruffle1532
tangling1535
scamblingc1538
tuilyie1550
bustling1553
tilt1567
ruffling1570
wresting1570
certationc1572
pinglinga1578
reluctation1593
combating1594
yoking1594
bandying1599
tention1602
contrast1609
colluctation1611
contestationa1616
dimication1623
rixation1623
colluctance1625
decertation1635
conflicting1640
contrasto1645
dispute1647
luctation1651
contest1665
stickle1665
contra-colluctation1674
contrasting1688
struggle1706
yed1719
widdle1789
scrambling1792
cut and thrust1846
headbutting1869
push-and-pull1881
contending1882
thrust and parry1889
aggro1973
a1200 Moral Ode 246 in Old Eng. Hom. I. 175 Þa þe ledden here lif in werre and in winne.
c1275 On Serving Christ 37 in Old Eng. Misc. 91 Bi-leueþ oure weorre, warlawes wode.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 10570 Þarfore þat tyme was mykyl þro, And ofte was boþe werre and wo.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 234 Who kan conforten now youre hertes werre?
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9666 Pes mai nourquar abide þar hate wons, or werr, or pride.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 49 Ne wolde neuere god bitwix vs tweyne As in my gilt, were outher werre or stryf.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 4 Amang the quhilkis is grete discorde discensioun and were.
1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant xviii. 30 Know'st thou the cause of Snow, or Haile, which are My fierce Artill'ry, in my time of warre?
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 306 Whatever be the motives that thus arrest a flock of birds in their flight, whether they be of gallantry or of war, it is certain that [etc.].
1817 Ld. Byron Manfred ii. ii. 135 I have affronted death—but in the war Of elements the waters shrunk from me.
1911 H. Walpole Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill ix. 159 Everything shouted Mrs. Comber with a war of welcome.
1912 L. Tracy Mirabel's Island (1915) ii. 32 His keen hearing was of no avail in that war of wind and wave.
1948 G. V. Galwey Lift & Drop vii. 196 Operating a war of his own against the gang and the Law.
c. The plural (esp. with definite article) was formerly often used in the same sense as the singular. to have been in the wars (colloquial), to show marks of injury or traces of rough usage.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun]
MarsOE
war1154
warc1374
irona1387
guerre?a1475
Mart?a1475
(the) feat of warc1503
militia1641
sport of kings1735
emergency1958
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured
to have been in the wars1850
c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 22 Whan Theseus with werres longe and grete The aspre folke of Cithe had ouer~come.
a1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) App. Z. 19 Wel fale ȝer þer after þo worres aslakede.
1448–9 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes 218 And for yowre labour in werris that with vs ye haue be, We þanke yow.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vi. x. 198 For knyghtes that ben..lecherous shal not be..fortunate vnto the werrys.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 32 So dothe the multytude of pepul..sone by warrys & injury of ennemys wythout strenghth lose hys welth.
1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. E4v After warres it is communelye sene, that a great number of those whiche wente out honest, returne home againe like roisters.
1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise Epist. f. 3 The miserable estait of ȝour maiesteis cuntrie oppressit be famine and intestine vearis.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 30 Is Signior Mountanto returnd from the warres or no? View more context for this quotation
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. iv. 23 Hereupon, the warres by Sea was againe renued.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 288 Warres is no strife To the darke house, and the detected wife. View more context for this quotation
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxvii. 247 When he was a litle boy, there being warres in the country.
1721 A. Ramsay Robert Richy & Sandy 37 His fame shall last: last shall his sang of weirs.
1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors x. 155 Sundry other marks upon his person, that show him to have been in the wars.
d. open war: avowed active hostility.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > active or open war
open warc1380
hot war1600
shooting war1941
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 16 Ȝif þei..conseilen men more to taken vengeaunce bi open werre of here breþren þan to suffren paciently wrongys.
1450 Impeachm. Duke of Suffolk in Paston Lett. (1904) II. 121 To leve, reise, and make open werr ayenst you.
1487 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 165 Hytt ys open warre betwyxte Gaunte & the Kynge of Romayns.
1609 T. Dekker Worke for Armorours sig. C2 That open warre should presently be proclaimed against that arrogant haughty, ambitious Tyrant Money.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii. sig. G3/1 Open Warre, Hostilitie.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 41 By what best way, Whether of open Warr or covert guile, We now debate. View more context for this quotation
†e. abstinence, prorogation of war: suspension of hostilities. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > peace > [noun] > cessation of hostilities > suspension of hostilities
truce?c1225
abstinence1386
induces1490
abstinence, prorogation of war1517
surseance1523
stay1563
surceasance1587
treague1590
suspension of arms or hostilities1603
cessation1628
still-stand1637
armistice1677
ceasefire1918
1517 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 38/1 The foresaid prorogacioun of were past concludit and approbate as said is.
1521 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 39/2 Þat..We may have abstinence of Weire for ane tyme quhill an Ambaxat may be maid Reddy.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxlvv That an especial abstinence of warre should be kept..betwixte the Realmes of England and Scotland.
2. In various phrases. (For declare, levy, wage war, see the verbs.)
a. (to be) at war, †at wars, †in war, †in wars: engaged in war. literal and figurative. So at open war, †wars.
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society > armed hostility > war > [adverb] > at war
in war1377
to set at war1487
at wars1565
in wars?1573
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contending [phrase]
to set at war1487
at (the) batea1500
in wars?1573
at wars1614
upon a tug1681
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 222 Buxomenesse and boste aren euer-more at werre, And ayther hateth other in alle manere werkes.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xiii. 58 When twa rewmes er at were and owþer party ensegez citee, toune or castell.
c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 1936 For to sette hem al at werre.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 22 Kyndomes and prouynces wern at werre.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 3 Men kennys almaist na realme jn cristyndome, bot jt is jn were.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. i. xxii. f. 29 The Britannes being free from all foraine warres, fell at warres with in them selues and to all other myscheifes.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 26 All Christin men tak tent and leir, How saull and body ar at weir.
?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes 12 When Turnus and Aeneas were in wars for the mariage of Lauinia.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 235 The Iesuits doe mightily disagree, and are often at open warres.
1614 R. Wilkinson Paire of Serm. 30 So wee are, indeed, at warres with God, and at warres with one another.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 215 King Gustavus Adolphus..hath taken Elbing..from the Polander, with whom he is still in warres.
1637 J. Battiere Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cxcvi.489 This Kingdom being now in Wars on all sides, doth not afford any great Design for the advancement of Learning.
1677 tr. A.-N. Amelot de La Houssaie Hist. Govt. Venice 91 Nine times have they been at Wars together.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 352 When England was at Wars with Portugal.
1780 Mirror No. 82 We have been two years at war with France.
1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 387 Sentiments of liberty which were not at war with order, virtue, religion, and good government.
1816 Ld. Byron Stanzas to Augusta ii. ii And when winds are at war with the ocean.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 171 Man, in his powerlessness, at war with Omnipotence!
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles II. xiv. 154 In that moment..Cyril felt at war with everybody and everything.
1884 Graphic 23 Aug. 186/3 Teetotallers and moderate drinkers will probably be at war on this point..as long as the world lasts.
b. to go to war or †wars: to enter on hostilities. to go to the war(s) (archaic): to go abroad as a soldier.
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society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war
to take the plainc1380
to go to war or warsc1450
to take the field1482
to go (etc.) on warfare1483
to pass (forth) in warfare1483
field1535
to go out1548
to go to the war(s)1600
to be (also go) on the warpath1841
to wash one's spears1892
society > armed hostility > military service > serve as a soldier [verb (intransitive)] > go abroad as soldier
to go to the war(s)1600
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 50 He schuld neuer councell man to go to werre.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 181 Come, thou shalt go to the warres in a gowne. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 70 Would we had all such wiues, that the men might go to Warres with the women. View more context for this quotation
1807 T. Moore Minstrel Boy 1 The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone.
1871 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1876) v. 117 The aim of the nation in going to war is exactly the same as that of the individual in entering a court; it wants its rights, or what it alleges to be its rights.
†c. to have war: to be at war (with, to). to hold, keep war or wars: to be continuously at war.
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society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > continue at war
to hold, keep war or warsa1122
to keep the journeyc1330
to keep (also maintain) the field1433
society > armed hostility > war > wage (war) [verb (transitive)] > wage war against or upon
to have wara1122
war1154
warraya1340
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1116 Se cyng Henri fylste his nefan..þe þa wyrre hæfde togeanes his hlaforde þam cynge of France.
13.. Northern Passion 154/218* Agaynes kynge pharoo he helde werre.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 2169 To holde werre [c1275 Calig. to halden comp] and eke fiht.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) vi. 64 Thei han often tyme werre with the Soudan.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 157 Thai..nouthir had were to him, na he to thame.
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 32 [They] beganne to keepe warre against their neighbours.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Kvijv They kepe warre against their borderers.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxv Englande hath oftentymes kepte warre with Scotlande.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 342 These Ilandes were wont to haue warre the one with the other.
d. to make war: to carry on hostilities. literal and figurative. Const. on, upon, with; also against, and †to, unto, or dative.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)]
warc1230
to make warc1275
warraya1300
battle1330
hostey?a1400
to make (a) fighta1400
to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1542
warfare1565
operate1781
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 87 Weorre makede Turnus.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6095 His folc made euere uaste worre ȝut after is deþe.
1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 17/2 The seide Phelip..hath contynuelly..made werre unto the seide John.
1515 in Archaeologia 47 302 In caace the duke or any other lordes wol make garriable werr ayeinst the castell.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lvii. 193 When yuoryn herd this he made me warre & was here before my cete with all his pusance.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. vij Item he assembled certain Lancashire and Cheshire men to the entent to make warre on the foresaid Lordes.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 126 As werrie waspis aganis Goddis word makis weir.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 588/2 That if the K. would not confirme the same, they would not cease to make him warre, til he shoulde satisfie their requests in that behalfe.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxxvii. xiii Bad folkes shall fall,..Who to make warre with God presumed.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iv. 216 He leuied a puissant armie, and made warre against Barbarossa.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xxvi. 94 He made warre to the Athenians.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 73 His valour rests yet untried, having made no warre but by disputation.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 127 Dro. In her forhead, arm'd and reuerted, making warre against her heire. View more context for this quotation
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii. sig. G3/1 To make Warre, Belligerate.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 331 As the fox makes war upon all animals, so all others seem to make war upon him.
1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. ii. 76 Aristotle maintained the general right of making war upon Barbarians.
1885 Cent. Mag. 30 396/1 The..colonists were accustomed..to make war on the creatures of the forest.
1918 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 129/2 To get more beef the Government is making war on the cattle tick.
†e. (to win, etc.) of, on, with war: by warfare.
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society > armed hostility > war > [adverb]
(to win, etc.) of, on, with warc1374
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 134 The thinges fellen as they don of were Bytwixen hem of Troye and Grekes ofte.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 22 How they whanne wyth were wyrchippis many.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 33 And Wales of were he wane at hys wille.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 516, 621.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ii. 1562 Þar wiþe hir ost scho coyme of weyre.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 333 Þus hase he wonun Kay on werre.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) v. l. 4458 A tyrawnd, Odonater, Held all that land tyll hym off were [v.rr. of weyre, of weire, awere] Agayne the mycht of the empyre.
3.
a. In particularized sense: A contest between armed forces carried on in a campaign or series of campaigns.Frequently used with definite article to designate a particular war, esp. one in progress or recently ended. Hence between the wars, between the war of 1914–18 and that of 1939–45 (cf. inter-war adj.).Often with identifying word or phrase, as in the Trojan war, the Punic Wars, the Wars of the Roses, the Thirty Years' War. Sacred War [= Greek ἱερὸς πόλεμος] : in Ancient Greek History, the designation of two wars ( b.c. 595 and 357–346) waged by the Amphictyonic Council against Phocis in punishment of alleged sacrilege. War between the States (esp. in the use of Southerners), the American Civil War. For holy war, servile war, social war, see the adjectives.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > a war
wara1300
battlea1382
big one1960
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of
flitec1000
strifea1225
wara1300
pulla1400
lakec1420
contenta1450
stour?c1450
contentiona1500
pingle1543
agony1555
feudc1565
combat1567
skirmish1576
grapple1604
counter-scuffle1628
scuffle1641
agon1649
tug1660
tug of war1677
risse1684
struggle1692
palaver1707
hash1789
warsle1792
scrabble1794
set-to1794
go1823
bucklea1849
wrestle1850
tussle1857
head-to-head1884
scrum1905
battleground1931
shoot-out1953
mud-wrestle1986
society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > holy war > specific
croiseriec1290
cruciade1429
croisee1482
crusade1577
crociate1607
Sacred War1774
society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war
Punic War1556
Vandal war1613
American Civil War1775
Seven Years War1775
Revolutionary Wara1784
Peninsular war1811
Great War1815
Mormon war1833
opium war1841
the Thirty Years' War1841
the Thirty Years' War1842
Mexican War1846
Napoleonic War1850
Crimean War1854
Hundred Years War1874
Balkan war1881
Boer War1883
Winter War1939
Six Day War1967
Yom Kippur War1973
Gulf War1981
Falklands conflict1982
society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > civil war > specific
civil war1712
the troubles1786
English Civil War1794
Wars of the Roses1809
the late unpleasantness1866
War between the States1867
Spanish Civil War1936
Spanish War1937
society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [adjective] > between first and second world wars
inter-war1939
between the wars1958
a1300 Cursor Mundi 2491 Þare had a were ben in þat land, Þat had lasted sumdel lang.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 29 Þe wer lasted so long Til morgan asked pes Þurch pine.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 437 Þat werre..lasted two & twenty ȝer.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2613 A gret warre, þat was wonderli hard in þe next londe.
1377 Death Edw. III in Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 217 This gode comunes..That with heore catel and with heore goode Mayntened the werre both furst and last.
1485 Patent Roll, 1 Henry VII 5 Dec. (P.R.O.: C 66/562) m. 7(19) Tempore guerre vocate le Barons Werre.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 522 Wes nocht all Troy with tresoune tane, Quhen x ȝeris of the wer wes gane?
a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Siij Duryng this weir, war takin presoneris... Mony one Lorde, Barrone, and Bachileris.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 36 The peace of heauen is theirs yt lift their swords In such a iust and charitable warre . View more context for this quotation
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 203 Soldiers finde warres, and Lawyers finde out still Litigious men.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. ii. iv. 239 This fatall War is like the Hydra; the more heads are cut off, the more grow up.
1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act I. xxii. 129 The French Cannon which took some of the Towns defended by the Dutch last War in Flanders.
1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. II. ii. 55 The first cause of the rupture, (which was afterwards called the Sacred War) arose from the Phocians having ploughed up a piece of ground belonging to the temple of Apollo at Delphos.
1814 Columbian Centinel 18 June 2/3 The southern war-hirelings say the Administration will continue the War.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 99/2 The celebrated Phocian or Sacred War, in which all the great states of Greece were more or less concerned.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. v. iv. 583 His conduct of the war evinced more activity than skill.
1861 Chicago Tribune 26 May 1/9 I, Samuel M. Fassett, photographist,..will continue to take those fine plain photographs for the low sum of one dollar, during the war.
1867 A. H. Stephens (title) A constitutional view of the late War between the States.
1882 E. A. Freeman Impressions U.S. (1883) 21 Still the War of Independence must be, on the American side, a formidable historic barrier in the way of perfect brotherhood.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 448/2 The Dorian population of Delphi..induced a coalition of Greek states to proclaim a ‘Sacred War’ and free the oracle from Phocian supervision.
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 5 June 14/7 There was a time when it was almost worth one's life in the city of Richmond to refer to the Civil War as the Civil War. The Richmonder who held the memories of the sixties close to his heart always called it the War Between the States.
1936 Punch 2 Dec. 640/1 Our telephone system is partly British and partly German and Turkish, and all of it served through the War with varying degrees of distinction.
1942 C. S. Lewis Screwtape Lett. xv. 76 I had noticed, of course, that the humans were having a lull in their European war—what they naïvely call ‘The War’!
1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose i. 3 He lived and worked in England and the Far East all the time between the wars.
1973 R. Thomas If you can't be Good vi. 46 The Maurys..had supplied the South with two generals during the War Between the States.
b. transferred and figurative. A contest, struggle (between living beings or opposing forces). Cf. 1b. Also war of nerves: see nerve n. Phrases 5; war of words (Journalese), a sustained conflict conducted by means of the spoken or printed word; a propaganda war.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrel in printed or spoken words
book-war1610
book quarrel1627
war of words1981
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3458 O suilk a wer was neuer herd, Ne suilk a strijf o childir tuin.
c1400 Anturs of Arth. iii Thayre werre on the wild squyne wurchis hom wo.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. ii. 160 I thinke there be neuer an Ale-house in England..but sets forth some poets petternels or demilances to the paper warres in Paules Church-yard.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 213 Our veyl'd Dames Commit the Warre of White and Damaske In their nicely gawded Cheekes, toth' wanton spoyle Of Phœbus burning Kisses.
1620 J. Taylor Jack a Lent A 4 Blacke Iacks..Whose liquor oftentimes breedes houshold wars.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 108 I pass the Wars the spotted Linx's make With their fierce Rivals, for the Females sake.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 78. ⁋5 What a learned War will there be among future Criticks about the Original of that Club.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 423 My Prophets, and my Sophists finish'd here Their Civil Efforts of the Verbal War.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 96 O insolence of youth! whose tongue affords Such railing eloquence, and war of words.
1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket ii. 16 Scarce any Youth wou'd dare At single Wicket, try the doubtful War.
1821 Ld. Byron Cain iii. i, in Sardanapalus 416 For what should I be gentle? for a war With all the elements ere they will yield The bread we eat?
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxii. 295 That deadly war, which, to the disgrace of mathematical science, has raged for three years between the geometers of Britain and Germany.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 108 The war between the white man and the forest was still fierce.
1885 Manch. Examiner 16 May 5/1 There is already a talk of..a war of tariffs being declared.
1981 Times 10 Oct. 1/7 As the war of words continued in the Tory party Mrs Thatcher arrived back from the Commonwealth Conference.
1984 Guardian 8 Mar. 9/1 (heading) Vietnamese intensify war of words on Peking.
c. to carry the war into the enemy's camp (into Africa, etc.): see carry v. Phrases 10.
d. war to end (all) war(s): a war regarded as making subsequent wars unnecessary or unthinkable; spec. the First World War (1914–18).Used from the outset with varying degrees of conviction, but later often ironically or in disproof.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > calamitous war
war to end (all) war(s)1914
1914 H. G. Wells (title) The war that will end war.]
1914 Washington Post 26 Nov. 4/2 The allies shall be held to their slogan that this is a war to end war.
1915 Life 15 July 109/3 If ever there was a war to end wars this is it.
1929 Rotarian Nov. 43/1 The terrible bloodshed, misery and suffering caused by the World War—the war to end all war—finally was stopped.
1967 W. Lippman in W. Safire New Lang. Politics (1968) 480/2 Each of the wars to end wars has set the stage for the next war.
1998 B. Day in N. Coward Compl. Lyrics 25/2 The early part of the period included the end of the War to End Wars, so it's not surprising to find the young Noël referring to it.
2012 R. E. Williams in E. Patterson Ethics beyond War’s End v. 87 Far from a war to end all wars, the typical civil war in the post-1945 period has been a war to ensure more wars.
e. to have a good war: to achieve success, satisfaction, or enjoyment during a war. Also with other adjectives. Often ironic.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > have success, failure, etc., during a war
to have a good war1969
1969 P. Dickinson Pride of Heroes i. 49 Harvey Singleton..had a good war. A very good war indeed. After the Raid he was parachuted into France three times.
1970 P. Dickinson Seals ii. 35 He had a very bad war.
1972 P. D. James Unsuitable Job iv. 124 He had what the men call a good war; we'd call it a bad war I dare say, a lot of killing and fighting.
1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor xviii. 153 He had a dazzling war... The comparison with Lawrence was inevitable.
†4.
a. Actual fighting, battle; a battle, engagement. Obsolete (chiefly poetic).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle
i-winc888
fightc893
wic897
wal-slaught?a900
fight-lacc1000
orrestlOE
battle1297
journeyc1330
warc1330
acounteringa1400
fieldc1425
engagement1665
affair1708
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 752 Rohand told anon..Hou þe batayle bi gan, Þe werres hadden y ben.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5464 Ȝyf we were bold, now be we baldere, & y schal vndertake þys were.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xlii. 1193 Þey [sc. elephantes] dreden nouȝt þe scharpnesse of werre, and dredeþ and fleeþ þe voice of þe leste sowe.
a1400 Octovian 1621 Tho began greet werre awake, Scheldes cleuede and speres brake.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 257 Now wakkenyse the were! wyrchipide be Cryste!
1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 185 The cronycles makyth no mencion of no chyualry ne werre done by the kynge al the tyme that he in Irland was.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 344 Their Heads from aiming Blows they bear a far;..With clashing Gauntlets then provoke the War.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 422 First, Almon falls,..Pierc'd with an Arrow from the distant War.
1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 19 Where, safe and laughing in his sleeve, He heard the distant din of war.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iv. x. 102 The boy is ripe to look on war.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vi. 135 War brayed to war.
†b. A hostile attack, invasion, assault. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]
fiend-reseOE
frumresec1275
assault1297
sault1297
inracea1300
sailing13..
venuea1330
checkc1330
braid1340
affrayc1380
outrunningc1384
resinga1387
wara1387
riota1393
assailc1400
assayc1400
onset1423
rake?a1425
pursuitc1425
assemblinga1450
brunta1450
oncominga1450
assembly1487
envaya1500
oncomea1500
shovea1500
front1523
scry1523
attemptate1524
assaulting1548
push1565
brash1573
attempt1584
affront?1587
pulse1587
affret1590
saliaunce1590
invasion1591
assailment1592
insultation1596
aggressa1611
onslaught1613
source1616
confronta1626
impulsion1631
tentative1632
essaya1641
infall1645
attack1655
stroke1698
insult1710
coup de main1759
onfall1837
hurrah1841
beat-up of quarters1870
offensive1887
strafe1915
grand slam1916
hop-over1918
run1941
strike1942
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 285 Þe werre of þe Danes þat assaillede first Norþhumberlond and þanne Lyndeseie.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 429 Thow mayst..make a werre so sharp on this Citee.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1599 Wee have no nede to dout[e] werr, ne molestacioun.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 589 Now the Turkes began to make faire warres, their terrible batteries began to grow calme.
5.
a. The kind of operations by which the contention of armed forces is carried on; fighting as a department of activity, as a profession, or as an art. Cf. man-of-war n., ship-of-war n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun]
wara1375
chivalrya1387
chiefalrie1548
soldiery1579
profession1581
military art1590
militia1590
warcrafta1661
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2349 But god for his grete grace gof i hadde now here horse & alle harneys þat be-houes to werre.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 492 This poynt of weir..Wes vndirtane so apertly, And eschevit richt hardely.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 37/2 None euill captaine was hee in the warre, as to whiche his disposicion was more metely then for peace.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1038 Nestor, A noble man naitest in werre.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10037 The Mirmydons were..Wise men in werr.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 908/2 Saint Paules meaning is, to shew to Timothie, that it is more then time, he were throughly trained, and made to warre, (as we say).
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. ii. 111 War was the sole profession of the nobles.
1781 J. Logan Poems 107 They hang the trumpet in the hall, and study war no more.
1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer I. vii. 113 I'm young in war, but not so young as to stand on an open beach to be shot down like an owl by day-light.
b. In titles of office, captain of the war, treasurer of the king's wars, treasurer at wars. Obsolete except as minister of (or for) war, secretary at war, secretary of (state for) war.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > commander-in-chief
captain of the warc1450
captain-general1514
general of the army1548
Lord General1577
generalissimo1621
generalissimus1637
Commander-in-chief1655
war-lord1856
officer commanding-in-chief1859
C. in C.1889
society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money > one who manages public money > specific officials
chamberlain1415
teller1434
under-treasurer1447
treasurer of the king's warsc1450
vice-treasurer1541
chequer-man?1577
Clerk of the Pellsa1603
treasurer at wars1617
fiscal1652
quaestor1673
underteller1694
First Lord of the Treasury1698
Paymaster General1698
melter1758
treasurer1790
First Lord1855
apposer-
c1450 Brut 450 Þe Lord Wylloghby was made Capten of hys werris.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 66 Ioab the sone of Saryre that was captayn of the warre of the kynge Dauid [Cf. Vulg. 2 Sam. viii. 16 Joab..erat super exercitum].
1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 139 Sir Reignold Bray Knyght late Tresorer of Our Soueraigne Lorde the Kynges werres.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 53 The Treasurer at Warres per diem thirtie five shillings.
1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 175 Mr. Clerk, secretary at war.
1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 115 The six Ministers of the Interior, of the Police, of Justice, of Finance, of War, and of foreign affairs.
1867 Crown Princess of Prussia Let. 27 Apr. in Your Dear Letter (1971) 133 The King wishes for peace..so does the Minister for War.
1877 J. Blackwood Let. 21 Dec. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) VI. 434 I am happy to say that our Minister of War is I think a man who may be trusted at the helm.
1903 Ceremonies at Laying Corner Stone of Army War College Building (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) 9 The master of ceremonies then introduced the honorable Secretary of War.
1964 Act Eliz. II c. 58 §1 There shall be transferred to a Secretary of State the functions conferred by any enactment on the Minister of Defence, or on the Secretary of State for War or for Air (however styled).
1980 A. Marwick Illustr. Dict. Brit. Hist. 64/2 He [sc. Churchill] served the coalition subsequently as secretary of state for war and air (1918–21).
c. in phrasal combinations designating things pertaining to warfare, as munitions of war, †weeds of war. †castle of war, house of war, place of war, town of war (obsolete), a fortified building or place. †line of war Nautical, the flotation-line of a ship when fully armed, ammunitioned, and victualled for three months.For Articles of War, contraband of war, council of war n., honours of war n., see those words.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun]
chestera855
boroughc893
fastnessOE
strength?c1225
warnestore1297
fortress13..
holdc1330
strongholdc1384
motec1390
fortalicec1425
garnisonc1430
garrisonc1430
town of war1441
wall-town1488
strengh1489
afforciament1509
piece1525
forcea1552
citadel1567
fort1569
place1575
holt1600
alcazar1623
fasthold1623
afforcement1642
castle-town1646
post1648
garrison-town1649
bridlea1661
palank1685
place of arms1704
ostrog1761
qila1761
presidio1763
gurry1786
thana1803
pa1823
castrum1836
lis1845
Gibraltar1856
training post1867
kasbah1902
jong1904
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun]
castlea1075
stronghousec1325
motec1390
house of fencec1425
castle of war1441
slot1578
house of war1581
kasbah1738
castellation1858
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > war
weeds of war1441
war weeds1508
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > waterline > when armed
line of war1691
1441 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. liv The Archbishop' officers by his commaundement kept the said towne of Ripon like a towne of warr.
1474 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 50 Passande to Sanctandros with lettres vndir the signete for cartis of were.
c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 465 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 163 With alkyne Instrument of were, as gyne, slonge, darte & spere.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 243 Till mak aparale For till defend and till assale Castell of wer or than Cite.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 405 Bothwell..That than at ynglis mennys fay Wes, and haldin as place of wer.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. biiii That wy walit I vis all wedis of veir That nedit hym to note.
1581 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 382 To fortefie and detene the samin [sc. house] as ane hous of weir.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 1 Prouided with all complete provisions of Warre.
1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 125 The line of War..is to be discovered by computing the weight..of the Ordnance..and..the weight of Men with three months Victuals.
†d. Manner of fighting. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [noun] > manner of fighting
warc1485
fight1603
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 79 Vsage makis him..expert be oft hanting of the were yat he is wont till.
c1503 Beuys of Southhamptowne (Pynson) 169/3323 For no catel Wolde I let sle Arundel, For he is gode in euery were.
6. concrete. Used poetically for:
a. Instruments of war, munitions. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun]
gearc1275
armourc1300
armsc1325
armingc1330
ordnancea1393
armourer?c1400
artilleryc1405
habiliments1422
artry1447
armaturea1460
apparamenta1464
atour1480
munitionc1515
furnishments1559
furniture1569
equipage1579
ammunition?1588
magazine1588
victuals1653
war1667
armament1668
contraband1753
stuff1883
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 712 Go then thou Mightiest..Ascend my Chariot,..bring forth all my Warr, My Bow and Thunder, my Almightie Arms Gird on. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 541 Inferior Ministers, for Mars repair His broken Axeltrees, and blunted War.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 565 Shields, Arms, and Spears, flash horrible from far; And the Fields glitter with a waving War.
1713 J. Addison Cato i. iv Th' embattled elephant, Loaden with war.
b. Soldiers in fighting array. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > battle array
arraya1375
ordinancec1385
fielda1393
front1487
stight1489
order of battle?1548
battle array1552
battle1577
battle-rayc1600
battalia1613
war1667
line of battle1695
ORBAT1975
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 214 On thir imbattelld ranks the Waves return, And overwhelm thir Warr . View more context for this quotation
1683 J. Oldham Poems & Transl. 56 Seneh..Where he, himself an Host, o'recame a War alone.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 53 In this Array the War of either Side Through Athens pass'd with Military Pride.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiv. 579 The opening gates at once their war display.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxx. 264 To arms they flew,..And mimic ensigns high they rear, And..Bear down on England's wearied war.
1816 L. Hunt Story of Rimini i. 141 It seems as if the harnessed war were near.
1822 W. Tennant Thane of Fife i. i On the plain Of Fife debark'd his proud invasive war.
†7. course of war, jousts of war, tournament of war: a tournament, joust. Similarly, to joust of war. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > joust or tilt [verb (intransitive)]
playeOE
bourdisec1320
joustc1330
copec1350
tourney1390
coup?a1400
joustenc1400
to joust of warc1400
to run togetherc1410
bourda1500
to fight at barriers1532
runa1533
to run at (the) tilt1548
jostle1580
tilt1595
to break a treea1600
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
to run tilt1831
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > joust or tournament
tournament?c1225
joust1297
tourney13..
justeningc1400
tournament of warc1400
inturnementc1440
tilt1511
jostle1607
tilting?1617
hippomachia1623
carousel1650
fortuny1676
c1400 Rowland & Otuel 812 Kyng askuardyn in his gere Rydes owte a course of were.
a1440 Sir Degrev. 379 To the castelle he rad..And axed yef ther eny were, That wold hyme delyvere him ther Off thre corses of wer, Hym and xij. knythus.
a1440 Sir Degrev. 393 He axit justes of were, And prays the of answere.
c1450 Brut 366 Þe Erle of Marre..come ynto Engelond for to chalange Ser Edmunde, þe Erle of Kent, of certeyn cours of warre on hors-bak.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 375 Take þi schild and þi spere, And ride to him a course on werre.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 787 And thai, that worthy war and wicht, At that metyng Iustit of wer.
1796 H. Macneill Links o' Forth xxxii Or break the lance, and couch the spear At tilts and tournaments o' weir.

Compounds

General attributive.
C1. In simple attributive use, with the senses ‘of or belonging to war’, ‘used or occurring in war’, ‘suited or adapted for war’, etc.
a. gen.
war aim n.
ΚΠ
1918 A. Bennett Pretty Lady xxviii. 193 The Germans were discussing their war aims.
1972 New Yorker 22 July 66/3 In the My Lai massacre the soldiers abandoned the unrealistic war aims of Dean Rusk and drew their illogical but understandable conclusion..all Vietnamese have to be killed.
war base n.
ΚΠ
1947 Daily Tel. 19 Apr. 4/2 Its virtual disappearance yesterday..is probably the only answer to the fear of its use as a war-base once more.
1977 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 14 Apr. 5/3 Militarist forces clutch at the blocs and war bases they established in Asia.
war camp n.
ΚΠ
1832 A. Earle Narr. Resid. N.Z. 237 Mr. Hobs, the Wesleyan missionary,..had visited the war-camp of the assembled chiefs.
1969 G. MacBeth War Quartet 25 In our minds A dream of war-camps festered.
war casualty n.
ΚΠ
1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah ii. 88 It was the war casualty lists and the starvation afterwards that finished me up with politics and the Church and everything else except you.
1974 A. Price Other Paths to Glory ii. ix. 225 The late Turco... Another war casualty?
war-code n.
ΚΠ
1853 G. Grote Hist. Greece XI. ii. lxxxvi. 286 To inquire whether Thebes had exceeded the measure of rigour warranted by the war-code of the time.
War Department n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > War Office
War Office1721
War Department1797
W.D.1855
W.O.1860
Seraskierate1876
pall-mall1880
war room1914
War House1925
Stavka1928
pentagon1942
War Box1952
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility
intelligence office1659
custom house1661
secret service1737
home department1782
home office1790
War Department1797
port authority1851
W.D.1855
welfare department1904
welfare1928
social services1968
1797 Rep. Committees House of Commons XII. 301 The Office of Secretary of State for the War Department was first established on the 11th July 1794.
1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. III. 395 Chapter xliv. Of the War Department.
1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. III. 405 The original proceedings of all courts-martial, ordered by the war department, are transmitted to that department by the judge advocate of the court.
1866 G. B. McClellan Let. 26 Dec. in Own Story (1887) xii. 221 The entire establishment..was removed to the War Department building, without my knowledge.
1944 Time 2 Oct. 19/1 This was strictly a military document drafted by the War Department.
† war-feat n. Obsolete
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 67 Thee coompanye youthful Surcease from warfeats.
war footing n.
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1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxviii. 242 The armies of the allied powers were all providentially on a war-footing, and ready.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It ii. 22 We were reduced to a war-footing.
1894 Times (Weekly ed.) 9 Feb. 118/3 The army has been placed on a war footing.
war hospital n.
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1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing iii. 23 I by no means refer only to..war hospitals, but..to..military hospitals at home, in time of peace.
1982 P. Quennell Customs & Characters ii. 33 The French Ambassadress..had promised she would visit a nearby war-hospital.
war-law n.
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1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. i. 31 Towards them [sc. Christian priests] the [Mohammedan] war-law speaks in a sterner tone.
war measure n.
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1808 W. Eaton in R. C. Prentiss Life W. Eaton (1813) 414 The Embargo was contemplated as a war measure.
1948 Rep. Native Laws Comm. 1946–8 (Dept. Native Affairs, S. Afr.) 32/1 A War Measure has been promulgated as a temporary attempt to relieve the situation.
1975 Toronto Star 1 Nov. b4/4 Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act and plunged Canada into a time of arrest without warrant and detention without charge.
war neurosis n.
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1920 Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 1 283 Freud's introduction gives some of the chief points of view for the psycho-analytical consideration of the war neuroses.
1944 Yank 31 Mar. 8 For this reason there is actually no such thing as ‘war neurosis’, any more than there is ‘war malaria’ or ‘war pneumonia’.
war-neurotic n.
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1955 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Psycho-anal. & War Neuroses in Compl. Wks. XVII. 215 With the end of the war the war neurotics, too, disappeared—a final but impressive proof of the psychical causation of their illness.
war news n.
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1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. v. 200 I cannot sit here quietly, listening to the war-news. It makes me mad to be up and doing.
1915 F. H. Burnett Lost Prince xiii. 96 [They] sat down to read the morning paper. The war news was bad to read.
1967 C. Potok Chosen iii. 59 There was war news all the time, but no one got this excited unless something very special was happening.
war period n.
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1918 H. Crane Let. 12 Aug. (1965) 11 All minors,..if drafted at all, will be apprenticed in machine shops, etc., during the war period.
1939 Ann. Reg. 1938 260 The declared policy of Senor Negrin to look beyond the war-period to a Spain in which one day the Spaniards on both sides would have to live together.
† war point n. Obsolete
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xviii. ix He me warre points did show.
war production n.
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1965 A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 xiv. 517 Bomber command claimed the largest share of Great Britain's war-production.
war profiteer n.
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1918 W. Owen Let. 10 Aug. (1967) 568 All the stinking Leeds & Bradford War-profiteers.
1975 New Yorker 21 Apr. 134/3 There have already been reports of some killings in several cities, where government police, tax collectors, war profiteers,..have been among the targets previously announced.
war propaganda n.
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1918 W. Owen Let. 25 Oct. (1967) 588 He had no qualifications for War Propaganda.
1974 Guardian 31 Jan. 1/5 War propaganda on both sides was, of course, bad and distorted.
war-psychosis n.
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1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 103 Symptoms of that war-psychosis, which afflicted us in common with the other belligerent nations.
1953 H. S. Whitman tr. O. Janetschek Emperor Franz Joseph 302 Don't worry so much, and you will soon be free of your war-psychosis.
war purpose n.
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1766 Mansfield's Speech againt Suspending & Dispensing Prerog. in Parl. Hist. (1813) XVI. 261 As that would have been using the war power of embargoes indirectly for another end than a war purpose, such an evasion of the law was not judged wise or fit.
war ration n.
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1924 D. H. Lawrence in M. Magnus Mem. Foreign Legion 16 He yelled for more bread—bread being war-rations and very limited in supply.
war record n.
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1890 E. B. Custer Following Guidon 2 They longed individually and as a regiment for a war ‘record’.
1978 F. Maclean Take Nine Spies iv. 126 The men were impressed by his war record.
war restriction n.
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1922 W. J. Locke Tale of Triona xxvi. 292 England..awoke to find war restrictions removed,..and petrol to be had.
1938 J. Charlesworth Law of Negligence vii. 133 Where a refuge was erected in the middle of the street, and inadequately lighted, so that a taxi-cab collided with it in the dark because..owing to war restrictions, no lights were maintained,..the local authority were held liable.
warre-thought n.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 284 But now I am returnde, and that warre-thoughts, Haue left their places vacant: in their roomes, Come thronging soft and delicate desires. View more context for this quotation
war scare n.
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1894 W. Le Queux Great War in Eng. 1897 i. 15 War-scares had been plentiful.
1977 Listener 10 Feb. 177/2 The war scare in 1938.
war-service n.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xlii. 222 The Scythians chuse rather to use their mares in warre-service than their stone-horses.
1916 J. Bailey Let. 8 Oct. (1935) 168 It was a great joy to see you both and King's Weston again, and to admire your wonderful ‘war service’ and feel that all the beauties of the house and place are being put to such splendid use [as a War Hospital].
1979 A. Price Tomorrow's Ghost iv. 47 They both looked old enough to have seen war service.
war-siege n.
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1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle ii. D 3 With what pleasing passions he did suffer Loues gentle war-siege.
war situation n.
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1936 C. Day Lewis We're not going to do Nothing 29 In an actual war-situation the trade unions are in the key~position.
war-store n.
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1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 380 Each gets a small bag of parched corn-flour, for his war-stores.
war strain n.
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1914 T. A. Baggs Back from Front xx. 94 It is there that human nature, exuberant or impassive under the war-strain, reveals its own true colours once again.
war surplus n.
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1952 H. Innes Campbell's Kingdom i. v. 110 They wore war surplus clothing relieved by bright scarves.
1968 P. Geddes High Game viii. 97 When the big round of war surplus prosecutions started, none of the dirt ever stuck to him.
1982 D. Williams Copper, Gold & Treasure 16 I'll let you know if he asks me to buy him any war surplus.
war victim n.
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1969 Guardian 28 Aug. 11/5 The starving war victims.
war vote n.
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1901 Daily Tel. 9 Mar. 10/4 He had to ask for a war vote amounting to close upon eighty-eight millions sterling.
war-weariness n.
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1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings p. xviii What, then, would be the effect on German war-weariness if giant raids on fortified towns by a hundred or so allied machines were of weekly occurrence?
1976 Classical Q. New Ser. 26 294 Sinon begins the first section of his lying speech with a reference to the death of Palamedes.., the second by describing the war-weariness of the Greeks.
war widow n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > types of widow
pure widowhood1427
vowess1506
king's widow1540
widow1561
Merry Widowc1567
widow mother1582
virgin widowa1644
war widow1866
1866 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Indian Affairs (U.S.) 164 These last came from Laramie during the winter, and claim to be war-widows.
1922 F. H. Burnett Robin v. 44 Slim young war-widows were to be seen in black dresses and veiled small hats with bits of white crape inside their brims.
1978 R. Barnard Unruly Son xvii. 186 We moved to London, where she passed as a war widow.
war-word adj.
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1932 E. Weekley Words & Names 21 We have the war-word Minnie for the German minenwerfer.
war wound n.
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1938 E. Ambler Cause for Alarm iii. 47 The limp? Probably a war wound.
1981 C. Miller Childhood in Scotl. 68 He was in continual pain from his war-wound.
war years n.
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1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar i. 9 The strain of the war years began to tell.
1977 D. Bennett Jigsaw Man xiii. 231 They had hidden the microfilm in the same cache they had used during the war years for passing messages.
war zone n.
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1914 Wells Fargo Messenger Oct. 27/1 A late report from the war zone states that Mr. Gaston has returned to London.
1918 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. p. xii/1 The Government..compel all ships plying to ports in the war zone to insure their men.
1939 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 6/5 The danger of ‘rupture’ has been vastly reduced by Congress's prohibition of American ships from entering the war zone.
1971 D. E. Westlake I gave at Office 142 The bar..had temporary plywood over its glassless windows, making it look like a correspondents' hangout in a war zone.
b. With words that denote arms, accoutrement, implements, etc.
(a)
war-axe n.
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1825 W. Scott Talisman ii, in Tales Crusaders III. 37 Take my war-axe, and dash the stone into twenty shivers.
war-belt n.
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1754 P. Wraxall Abridgem. Indian Affairs (1915) 242 He calls upon them now to..join us in our Defence & Revenge & presents the Large War Belt to them.
1798 W. S. Landor Gebir vii. 28 Whirling headlong in his war-belts fold.
1847 C. Lanman Summer in Wilderness 17 Captain James Clarke,..when about to be murdered by a council of Indians.., threw the war-belt in the midst of the savages, with a defying shout.
1965 Canad. Hist. Rev. June 109 In December [1775] the Iroquois delegation told Philip Schuyler that Johnson after offering them a war belt and hatchet had invited them to ‘feast on a Bostonian and drink his blood’.
war-bow n.
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1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. War bow.
1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs iv. 48 Nothing so guaranteed a safe passage through Apacheland as a coach that would not tip or leave the road when the warbows were bending and the Springfields blasting back at them.
war-club n.
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1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 269 He gives a violent blow with his war-club against a post that is fixed in the ground.
1907 J. W. Schultz My Life as Indian xvii. 198 The fleeing men..were overtaken and shot, or brained with war clubs.
1943 R. Peattie Great Smokies & Blue Ridge 24 The Cherokee weapons were the ballheaded war club, spears and bows and arrows.
1984 Listener 4 Oct. 13/3 They were attacked by Kukukuku..with stone war-clubs.
war-dress n.
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1724 H. Jones Present State Virginia 5 The Seneca Indians in their War Dress may appear as terrible as any of the Sons of Anak.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 16 A command for Eagle to put on his war-dress.
war-mallet n.
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1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 215 The war-mallet is a club with a large head of wood or stone.
war material n.
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1881 W. D. Hay 300 Years Hence iv. 67 The progress of The Final Wars was marked by a whole series of inventions in war material.
1939 Ann. Reg. 1938 265 Meanwhile war material from Germany and Italy continued to pour in.
war rocket n.
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1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 328/1 Improvements in War Rockets.
war saddle n.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 345/2 The Great Saddle or War Saddle, which is accounted the chief of Saddles.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 167 His rider occupied his demipique, or war-saddle, with an air that shewed it was his familiar seat.
war souvenir adj.
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1963 L. Deighton Horse under Water xliv. 180 An old war-souvenir pistol.
wartool n.
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1839 T. Carlyle Chartism viii. 72 Or was the smith idle, hammering only wartools?
† war weeds n. Obsolete
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > war
weeds of war1441
war weeds1508
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. av Wight in their were wedis.
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war-balloon n.
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1843 Pract. Mechanic 16 Dec. 114/1 (heading) War balloon.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 8 Feb. 5/1 An ordinary war-balloon..may either contain an officer in charge or be dispatched unattended.
war-beacon n.
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1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring ii. ii. 277 Such light and flame cannot have been seen on Weathertop since the war-beacons of old.
war-cart n.
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. vii. 144 Ane vther sort full byssely to Mart The rynnand quhelis forgeis, and weir cart.
war-chariot n.
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1911 C. R. L. Fletcher & R. Kipling School Hist. Eng. i. 15 They [sc. the Celts] rode on war-ponies, and, like the Assyrians in the Bible, they drove war-chariots.
war-pony n.
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1865 J. Pike Scout & Ranger xi. 123 Many had friends..who came after them with wagons; refusing to let them ride their war ponies.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 128 Prancing their knees under their tiny skirts Like war-horses; or war-ponies at least!
war-tower n.
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1909 G. M. Trevelyan Garibaldi & Thousand xii. 213 A high hill, on the spur of which Talamone and its old war-tower projected into the sea.
(c)
war-boat n.
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1836 F. Marryat Olla Podrida xxv, in Metropolitan Mag. The Burmah war-boats are very splendid craft, pulling from eighty to one hundred oars.
war-canoe n.
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1789 Loiterer 18 July 5 A large War Canoe and some small fishing Proas had been forced out to Sea.
1882 H. de Windt On Equator 77 We now came in sight of a fleet of some 100 huge war-canoes.
war-steamer n.
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1852 H. W. Longfellow Warden Cinque Ports iii To see the French war-steamers speeding over.
war-coach n.
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1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. iv. 214 Great Commanders..fought in Open Chariots or War-Coaches.
war-galley n.
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1826 J. Howell (title) An Essay on the War-galleys of the Ancients.
c. With words that denote a commander, officer, army, etc., as war-captain, war-chief, war-leader; war-array, war-company, war-force, war-tribe.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun]
heretogac900
marshal1258
chevetaine1297
chieftainc1330
arrayerc1370
governora1382
master of (the) chivalrya1382
leadera1387
war-headlinga1400
emperorc1400
captain1450
conductor1483
grand captain1531
commendador1580
lodesman1581
conducta1592
commander1598
induperator1599
war-captain1610
war-chief1610
war-leader1610
most mastera1616
commandant1687
commandant-general1827
baron1919
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 77 The Generall of all the warre-forces thorowout Britaine.
1757 W. Burke Acct. European Settlem. Amer. I. ii. iv. 182 When..the fury of the nation is raised to the greatest height,..the war captain prepares the feast, which consists of dogs flesh.
1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. iii. 18 We had not seen the War-Chief, the Commander.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xii. 237 The rest of Scotland's war-array With Edward Bruce to westward lay.
1825 P. S. Ogden Jrnl. 18 Feb. (1950) 23 The War tribes appear determined that we Shall not want for their Company this year it cannot be otherwise as we are following the main War track.
1906 C. Squire Mythol. Anc. Brit. v. 48 The traditions which make him [Arthur] a supreme war-leader of the Britons.
1909 ‘M. Twain’ Is Shakespeare Dead? v. 53 It could have gone soldiering with a war-tribe..and learned soldier-wiles and soldier-ways.
1913 J. A. Cramb Germany & England (1914) i. 35 I seem to hear again the thunder of the footsteps of a great host... It is the war-bands of Alaric!
d. With words denoting cries, songs, musical instruments, etc., as war-chant, war-cheer, war-horn, war-march, war-music, war-pipe, war-shout, war-tramp, war-trumpet, war-whistle, war-yell.
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1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 388 Taking from him his drum, war-whistle, and martial titles.
1793 W. Blake Amer. 76 Sound! sound! my loud war-trumpets.
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. v. 247 And varying notes the war-pipes brayed, To every varying clan.
1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming iii. xxvi And for the business of destruction done Its requiem the war-horn seemed to blow.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 56 What marvel, then, At times, unbidden notes should rise, Confusedly bound in memory's ties, Entangling, as they rush along, The war-march with the funeral song?
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. 43 Thus I stopped his triumphant war-yells.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. ii. 188 The first blast of the war-trump will scatter their greenness to the winds.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 107 When first I heard War-music.
1866 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lost Tales Miletus, Secret Way 41 The huge walls Shook with the war-shout of ten thousand voices.
1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily xxvii. 228 As they went they sang the Ingomo, the war-chant of the Zulu.
1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 191 Frederick the Great of Prussia's war-cheer, ‘Move, you bastards, do you want to live forever?’
e. With words that refer to finance.
war bond n.
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1918 Daily Mirror 12 Nov. 6/4 It bore a poem, titled ‘A Message from Mars’, eulogising the airmen and urging them to buy War Bonds.
1981 B. Langley Autumn Tiger v. 67 A gigantic billboard..urged him to ‘Buy War Bonds’.
war debt n.
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1865 Nation (N.Y.) 1 386 The Reconstructing State Convention of Alabama has pronounced against the repudiation of the war debt of the state.
1924 Lit. Digest 9 Feb. 20/2 The whole subject of war debts should undergo a new process of accountancy.
1931 Keesing's Contemp. Archives 76/2 The oppressive problem of war-debts and reparations.
1983 T. Pocock 1945 vii. 241 The British owed their dominions, colonies, and the rest, a war debt of £4,000,000,000.
war-enterprises n.
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1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. xxxviii. 190 They had very exactly considered his War-Enterprises.
war expenditure n.
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1931 Daily Express 22 Sept. 10/6 The fact is, the profligacy of war expenditure, the high pay, the inconsequentialness of it all, led every one into bad, extravagant habits.
war-fund n.
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1853 G. Grote Hist. Greece XI. ii. lxxxviii. 495 It is true that the Athenians might have laid up that surplus annually in the acropolis, to form an accumulating war-fund.
war gratuity n.
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1945 Ann. Reg. 1944 80 All those returning to civil life would receive war gratuities as a reward for their service.
1978 D. Dunlop in D. Abse My Medical School 31 Besides ordinary freshmen like myself staight from school, many came up on their war gratuities.
war-insurance n.
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1898 Amer. Rev. of Reviews Sept. 322/2 Newspapers were required to bear the..expense of fire, marine, accident, and war insurance.
war-loan n.
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1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. iii. xxiii. 185 The only instance of the kind in recent history on a scale comparable to that of the war loans, is the absorption of capital in the construction of railways.
1974 Daily Tel. 24 June 17/1 ‘War Loan is a buy when the price equals the yield’ was the joke on everyone's lips in Throgmorton Street a couple of years ago. Today it is no longer a joke—almost a reality. On Friday 31/ 2 p.c. War Loan dropped to an all time low of £231/ 2.
war-price n.
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1824 Cobbett's Weekly Reg. 7 Feb. 354/2 Corn has not reached half the war-price yet.
1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 599/1 Gentlemen farmers formed another exception during the era of war~prices and yeomanry cavalry.
war relief n.
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1940 G. Marx Let. 5 Sept. in G. Marx et al. Groucho Lett. (1967) 25 The proceeds are given to British War Relief and the actors all donate their services.
war salary n.
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1815 in Orders Council Naval Service (1866) I. 16 To direct that the salaries established as war salaries, by the said Order in Council,..should be the permanent salaries, both in war and peace of the several persons.
war savings adj.
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1916 Times 19 Feb. 5/1 The new War Savings Certificates, which can be bought from today for 15s. 6d. each at any money-order office.
1916 Times 19 Feb. 5/1 No income-tax is payable in respect of the accumulated interest on War Savings Certificates.
1916 War Savings Sept. 5/1 Post Office Exchequer Bonds and War Savings Certificates are our rifles and hand-grenades.
1919 Maclean's Jan. 55/3 Every man, woman and child in Canada should invest in War-Savings Stamps all the money that he or she can save.
war-tax n.
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1799 Times 1 June 2/3 The Directory have converted his accusation into a War Tax of three per cent. upon all capital.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 32 The Revenue was diminished by the abandonment of the war-taxes.
1898 Boston Herald 3 July 14/8 The Pullman method for affixing the war tax stamps to parlor car seats.
f. With words that denote literary or artistic works.Frequently, esp. in relation to poetry, during or with reference to the First World War (1914–18). Cf. war poet n. at Compounds 4.
war-ballad n.
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1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) ii. 9 What internal evidence does the Odyssey afford, that Homer sold his Trojan war-ballad at three yards an obolus?
1916 W. Owen Let. 23 Nov. (1967) 416 I have suddenly seen what I wanted to do with that War Ballad.
war book n.
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1809 M. L. Weems Life Gen. F. Marion (1814) 3 I never dreampt of such a thing as writing a book; and least of all a war book.
1904 J. London Let. 4 June (1966) 159 There won't be any war-book so far as I am concerned.
1916 War Illustr. 25 Nov. p. lx/1 (heading) Lord Northcliffe's War Book.
1978 A. Waugh Best Wine Last xviii. 235 Starting with Journey's End..there had been a spate of war books.
war history n.
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1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub ii. 31 He had been offered a knighthood for his official War History of the submarines.
1966 ‘G. Black’ You want to die, Johnny? xi. 198 Split-second timing..isn't achieved as often as the writers of popular war histories tend to suggest.
war-impression n.
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1917 W. Owen Let. 11 Mar. (1967) 442 Do you think, now, that I am going to read the war-impressions of home-editors?
war novel n.
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1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. viii. 99 He had not read the marvellous war novel to which he alluded.
1975 D. Lodge Changing Places v. 178 Stephen Crane wrote his great war-novel first and experienced war afterwards.
war play n.
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1896 Godey's Mag. Feb. 182/1 The instrument..imitates horses' hoofs with..untiring fidelity in all war-plays.
1915 Sphere 26 June 322/2 The production of a war play is a perilous business at the present time.
1972 P. Black Biggest Aspidistra i. iv. 41 Brigade Exchange, a war play..created by the pre-Nazi German radio.
war poem n.
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1857 J. A. Symonds Let. May (1967) I. 105 He chiefly talked about..[Tennyson's] Maud which he considers a true war poem & praises highly.
1917 W. Owen Let. 25 Sept. (1967) 496 I send you my two best war Poems.
1978 Listener 23 Mar. 378/3 There was a fine slim anthology of war poems read [aloud].
war poetry n.
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1816 N. Worcester Friend of Peace I. 39 It is hoped that some humane poet will take up the sentiment contained in these lines, and expose more fully the pernicious influence of war poetry.
1917 W. Owen Let. 27 Nov. (1967) 513 I knew he valued War Poetry before he told me so!
1973 D. Aaron Unwritten War iv. x. 152 Their best war poetry tended to be philosophical and personal.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Mar. 35/1 His war poetry was officially condemned as unpatriotic and ‘antiheroic’.
war sonnet n.
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1915 W. S. Churchill in Times 26 Apr. 5/5 The very few incomparable war sonnets which he [sc . Rupert Brooke] has left behind.
war story n.
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1864 M. B. Chesnut Diary 1 Jan. in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xxi. 524 I mapped out a story of the war. Johnny is the hero... It is to be a war story.
1982 G. Lyall Conduct of Major Maxim xv. 145 They weren't interested in her war story, they'd heard a million war stories.
war verse n.
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1918 G. Frankau Judgement of Valhalla 41 The other Side Being a letter from Major Average..acknowledging a presentation copy of a book of war-verse.
1952 E. Wilson Shores of Light 780 I refrained from mentioning her war-verse.
g. Cf. also war picture n. at Compounds 4.
war film n.
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1897 C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. p. vii (advt.) War films.
1930 P. Rotha Film till Now i. v. 124 Like all war films manufactured in Hollywood, The Big Parade carried little of the real spirit of war.
1972 J. Mann Mrs. Knox's Profession ii. 14 She looked like an amateur vamp in a war film.
war movie n.
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1914 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. 9/6 Real war ‘movies’ shown... Moving pictures of real warfare were exhibited in the Seventy-first Regiment Armory last night.
1981 J. van de Wetering Mind-murders i. iv. 43 An old war movie that ended well when the bad enemies surrendered.
war photograph n.
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1977 M. Herr Dispatches (1978) ii. 18 I can remember..when I was a kid looking at war photographs in Life.
war photography n.
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1908 J. Danziger Beaton 46/2 The naïve approach of his war photography.
h. Also their authors. Cf. also war artist n., war poet n. at Compounds 4.
war novelist n.
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1966 J. Frederics Ready to Die (1968) iv. 20 He made war novelist sound like something not discussed in polite company.
war photographer n.
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1978 R. Gibson Catal. 20th Cent. Portraits (Nat. Portrait Gallery) 36/1 Lee Miller (1907–77), well known as a war photographer.
C2. Objective, etc., as war-breeder, war-chronicler, war-jobber, war-maker, war-winner, war-writer; †war-keeping, war-making, war preparation, †war-thirst, war-winning (also adj.); war-bearing, war-breathing, war-denouncing, war-loving, †war-parting, war-stirring adjs.; war-hungry adj.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > action of waging war
warrayinga1300
warring13..
warfarec1485
war-makingc1485
warfaring1598
waginga1674
levying1769
belligerence1814
war-fighting1965
society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > continuing of war
war-keepingc1485
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 116 Defence of the kingis persone..js fer mare preuilegit, na is ony..were making till his awin legis.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 160 Capitaines..apte and meete..for warrekepyng.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 5 This is my opinion of the diuersitie of warre-writers.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 354 But if (braue Lands-men) your war-thirst be such.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. xv. 274 Mars is violent, a war-breeder.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xxi. 41/1 The Cattieuchlani, a stout and warre-stirring people.
1747 W. Collins Odes 48 The War-denouncing Trumpet.
1791 W. Blake French Revol. in Compl. Writings (1972) 253 Then the King will disband This war-breathing army.
1833 Niles' Reg. 44 148/1 Very few persons questioned the right of congress to lay an embargo, under the war-making power.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxi. 271 The war-chroniclers who write brilliant stories of fight and triumph.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. 53 The war-jobbers have plainly won.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 2/2 Raids by war-loving hill tribes on our Indian frontiers.
1931 W. S. Churchill World Crisis V. vi. 97 Neglect in the war-preparations.
1934 V. M. Yeates Winged Victory i. xx. 159 Tom was afraid Miller might be feeling his responsibility and want to do an undue amount of war-winning.
1936 D. Thomas Twenty-five Poems 10 Dumbly and divinely stumbling Over the warbearing line.
1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War i. 49 Manufacturers found it very difficult to give up mass production, in order to make the 200 or so sets ‘off’, which were often the war-winners.
1956 Nature 11 Feb. 251/1 This was largely due to the efforts of..Sir Henry Tizard, whose foresight resulted in such war-winning devices as radar.
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) lx. 456 The Western caricature of the mad-dog war-hungry Chinese.
1974 P. Gore-Booth With Great Truth & Respect 123 Their object was to go hell-bent for victory with all the stupendous war-winning momentum which the United States developed.
1978 Ld. Drogheda Double Harness xix. 230 He was indeed one of the real war-winners, having done more than anyone to lighten Churchill's load.
1982 L. Warner & J. Sandilands Women beyond Wire v. 69 The Japanese..could be lethal..their business in the islands was that of professional war-making.
C3. Instrumental and locative, as war-battered, war-bitten, war-bleached, war-blinded, war-bright, war-broken, war-brutalized, war-devastated, war-famed, war-made, war-marked, war-mazed, war-orphaned, war-ravaged, war-scarred, war-shaken, war-shattered, war-torn, war-tossed, war-triumphant, war-wasted, war-wearied, war-wounded (frequently absol.), war-wracked adjs. Also with sense ‘for war’, as war-apparelled, war-dight, war-laden adjs.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. iv. 18 Whiles the honourable Captaine there Drops bloody swet from his warre-wearied limbes. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. vii. 44 Your Armie, which doth most consist Of Warre-markt-footmen.
1624 R. Davenport City Night-cap (1661) iii. 26 The hoofs Of war-apparell'd horses.
1653 J. Taylor Short Relation Long Journey 12 An old ruined winde and war-shaken Castle.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccxlii, in Poems (1878) IV. 61 Warr~famed Douglas.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xcix, in Poems (1878) IV. 125 Our Warre-tost Realme.
1660 Speech to Gen. Monk 1/1 Her War-made breaches now are cur'd again.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 486 Pallas herself, the War-triumphant Maid.
1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Seven Chiefs against Thebes in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 150 Nor the war-wasted town betray.
1804 T. Campbell Soldier's Dream 22 Fain was their war-broken soldier to stay.
1821 J. Baillie W. Wallace in Metrical Legends xcv From war-dight youth, to barefoot child.
1827 G. Darley Sylvia 149 The wild, war-blasted marches.
1857 J. G. Whittier in National Era 11 June 94/5 When each war-scarred Continental,..Waved his rusted sword in welcome.
1900 W. B. Yeats Shadowy Waters 33 War-laden galleys, and armies on white roads.
1902 J. H. Rose Life Napoleon I (ed. 2) II. xxv. 101 Duroc, a short, stern, war-hardened man.
1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane iv. 43 Women of prayer who had raised just as many waxen palms to altars, in nunnery and in palace, for many a war-wracked generation.
1915 A. Reade Poems of Love & War 52 Joan, the Mystic Maiden, rides Through the war-swept countrysides.
1931 W. S. Churchill World Crisis V. xxi. 323 A hundred and twenty-five thousand ragged, war-bitten men.
1937 Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 15/3 (heading) War-shattered shrine restored.
1938 Times 24 Aug. 12/1 The removal of import duties on mining, agricultural, and other machinery, ostensibly designed to facilitate the rehabilitation of war-devastated areas.
1938 W. B. Yeats Herne's Egg ii. 12 A weather-stained, war-battered Old campaigner such as I.
1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune 144 For one of our war-brutalized soldiery, you have considerable perception.
1939 L. Jacobs Rise of Amer. Film v. xix. 386 Griffith revealed his superficial understanding of the war by remarking his sets for Intolerance had been more impressive than anything he saw in war-torn France and Belgium.
1940 C. Day Lewis Poems in Wartime 10 Along this war-mazed valley.
1941 L. B. Lyon Tomorrow is Revealing 28 Eyes, and the ploughshare, baulk at the recovery Of skeletons war-bleached a grave ago.
1942 W. S. Churchill End of Beginning (1943) 220 We recreated and revivified our war-battered Army.
1950 D. Hyde I Believed ii. 14 The war-wounded were everywhere... Blinded, they teamed up into bands.
1954 W. Faulkner Fable 46 A wealthy American expatriate..who was supporting near Paris an asylum for war-orphaned children.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 99 It is made by Garden Machinery, Ltd., of Slough. Director of the firm,..extreme right, is a war-blinded South African.
1968 Guardian 23 Feb. 10/6 Few, other than surgical cases (including occasional war-wounded) were brought to the hospital.
1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 108 Regret those jousting aristocracies, War-bright.
1975 ‘E. Lathen’ By Hook or by Crook xxiii. 209 It was imperative to get the children out of their war-torn background.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 17 June 1- a/3 The driver took ‘the route normally taken’ by anyone wishing to cross from the Christian to the Moslem sides of war-wracked Beirut.
1978 Poland May 48/3 In the Fifties, twice as many children were born in Poland than was thought appropriate to the poverty of the war-ravaged country.
1980 J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson vii. 114 Harold Nicolson..considered the choice of war-scarred Paris for the site of a peace-seeking meeting a psychological mistake.
C4. Special combinations. Also war cry n., war dance n., war-dog n., war-drum n., war-god n., warhorse n., war-kettle n., war-lock v.2, war-lord n., war-man n., war-note n., War Office n., etc.
War Ag n. colloquial abbreviation of ‘War Agricultural Committee’.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > committee
War Ag1949
society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > War Office > department, board, etc.
ordnance1485
military chest1745
War Cabinet1916
W.O.S.B.1945
War Ag1949
1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West vi. 152 The farmer I stay with there is a member of the War Ag.
1970 G. E. Evans Where Beards wag All ix. 106 When the War Ag. (Agricultural Committee) took over I asked 'em would they send the gyro-tiller.
war-arrow n. (= Old Norse her-ǫr), an arrow split into segments which are sent out by a chief as a call to arms.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > call to arms > by symbol
fire cross1523
fiery cross1587
crostarie1685
war-kettle1754
war-hatchet1760
war-post1826
war-arrow1865
1865 C. Kingsley Hereward xx, in Good Words June 414/1 Split up the war-arrow, and send it round.
war artist n. an artist commissioned to depict events and situations arising during a war.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > historical painting > painter
story painter1634
history painter1658
war artist1859
1859 Lady's Newspaper 18 June 1/1 (heading) The Emperor of Austria's war artist taken prisoner.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xii. 237 Some man unknown who would be employed as war artist by the Central Southern Syndicate.
1914 Illustr. London News 3 Oct. 7 (caption) Drawn..from a sketch by Frederic Villiers, our special war artist.
2013 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 6 Apr. 13 Australia's most recent official war artist, Ben Quilty, brings an air of uncommon vulnerability to the soldiers he encountered in Afghanistan.
war baby n. (a) one born during a war, esp. an (illegitimate) child of a man on active service; (b) slang a young or inexperienced officer; (c) U.S. slang a bond or the like which is sold during a war, or which increases in value because of a war.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > bond > types of bond
government securities1707
Sword-blade bond1707
long bond1720
government paper1774
indent1788
premium bond1820
active1835
preference bond1848
investment bond1853
mortgage bond1853
revenue bond1853
municipal bond1858
treasury-bond1858
sices1867
property bond1869
government1870
priority bond1884
municipal1888
income bonds1889
yearling1889
war baby1901
Liberty Bond1917
Liberty Loan1917
victory bond1917
corporate1922
performance bond1938
convertible1957
Eurobond1966
Euroconvertible1968
managed bond1972
muni1973
granny bond1976
bulldog bond1980
Euro1981
granny1981
strip1982
zero1982
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > young or inexperienced officer
youngster1608
wart1894
poodle-faker1900
war baby1901
ninety-day wonder1917
1901 E. W. B. Morrison With Guns in S. Afr. xxxiv. 239 (caption) Mrs. Jourdain's ‘war baby’.
1915 Truth 4 Aug. 181/2 There could be no objection to their marrying..were it not for the thought of the consequent war babies.
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 35 Even these war babies (three of them died very gallantly before we re-assembled for breakfast next day) had bottled most of their exuberance.
1917 R. W. Lardner Gullible's Trav. 83 ‘You forgot somethin',’ she says, ‘You forgot them war babies.’ Did I tell you about that? Last fall I done a little dabblin' in Crucial Steel.
1935 I. Miller School Tie xv. 286 It was possible to join a Junior Training Battalion—commonly known as the War Babies' Brigade—at the age of seventeen and a half.
1948 Green Bay (Wisconsin) Press-Gaz. 13 July 4/2 The idle rich of Europe..clamored for war while they invested great amounts in American war babies and reaped superlative profits.
1974 G. Butler Coffin for Canary ix. 105 Born Belfast, 1944, so she was just a war baby.
war bag n. U.S. †(a) = war budget n. (a); (b) a bag containing money, clothing, or other supplies.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > sign of victory > bag of trophies
war budget1813
war bag1820
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > for clothes, money, or supplies
war bag1820
1820 Western Rev. 2 48 After the action is over, each person returns his war bag to the commander of the party.
1897 A. H. Lewis Wolfville 33 S'pose you-alls gropes about in your war-bags an' sees. I'm needin' of a drink mighty bad.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xiii. 190 The first and second guards..ransacked their war bags and donned their best toggery.
1933 J. V. Allen Cowboy Lore i. 6 What's known as the ‘war bag’ is carried by many of the boys in their beds to protect their wardrobe, tobacco, etc., and may be anything from a flour sack to a rather pretentious container.
1972 F. van W. Mason Roads to Liberty 241 Higsby fumbled in his war bag.
war-bird n. U.S. (a) = war-eagle n.; (b) figurative a fighting aircraft or airman.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare
war-bird1836
warplane1911
battleplane1915
the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > genus Aquila > aquila chrysaetos (golden eagle)
royal eaglec1425
golden eagle1676
mountain eagle1802
war-bird1836
war-eagle1855
1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 289 [An Indian squaw] adorned with the wings of the American War-bird.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha ix. 120 Then began the greatest battle..That the war-birds ever witnessed.
1917 G. Frankau City of Fear 3 Above, The war-birds beat And whistle.
1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell 206 German and British warbirds were mixing it in an aerial free-for-all.
1981 Pilot Jan. 23/2 Some of the war-birds flying today are quite bent, cracked, patched up.
war bonnet n. a head-dress decorated with eagle feathers, worn by American Indians.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > other
dorlot1340
horn1340
vitremytec1386
templesc1430
bycocket1464
burlet1490
knapscall1498
shapion1504
shaffron1511
paste1527
attire1530
faille1530
muzzle1542
corneta1547
abacot1548
wase1548
wrapper1548
tiring1552
basket1555
bilimenta1556
Paris head1561
shadow1578
head-roll1583
mitre1585
whitehead1588
crispa1592
ship-tire1602
oreillet1603
scoffion1604
coif1617
aigrette1631
egreta1645
drail1647
topknotc1686
slop1688
Burgundy1701
bandore1708
fly-cap1753
capriole1756
lappet-head1761
fly1773
turban1776
pouf1788
knapscapa1802
chip1804
toque1817
bonnet1837
casquette1840
war bonnet1845
taj1851
pugree1859
kennel1896
roach1910
Deely bobber1982
1845 J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Exped. Rocky Mts. 134 Indians..with the long red streamers of their war bonnets reaching nearly to the ground.
1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xxii. 356 Adjusting her widow's cap like a war-bonnet, she arose to her full height of five-feet-one-and-a-half.
1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 151 The flowing war bonnet of the Plains has become the symbol of the American Indian.
War Box n. slang the War Office.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > War Office
War Office1721
War Department1797
W.D.1855
W.O.1860
Seraskierate1876
pall-mall1880
war room1914
War House1925
Stavka1928
pentagon1942
War Box1952
1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke i. 12 The War Box cited him ‘Missing believed killed’.
1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left xxix. 213 I flit between Downing Street and the War Box and the Ministry of Defence.
war-boy n. in Africa, a black fighting man or soldier.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > African
askari1809
goum1845
war-boy1889
1889 Daily News 23 Jan. 6/6 An encounter took place recently just outside the Sulymah district, between a small British force and a party of war-boys.
1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xxvii. 314 They began to be chased by war-boys in canoes.
war bride n. a woman who marries a man who is on active service or a man (esp. a foreigner) whom she met while he was on active service.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > bride > types of
war bride1918
G.I. bride1945
1918 A. Bennett Pretty Lady xi. 61 She was becoming hysterical: the special liability of the war-bride.
1939 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 9/5 Silver tea and coffee sets are being bought..as gifts to the many war brides unable to set up homes.
1978 J. Krantz Scruples i. 10 She was as alert as a vixen, as humorous as the song by Maurice Chevalier after which her homesick war-bride mother had named her.
war bridle n. Canadian a harsh bridle made by placing a loop of rope round the lower jaw of a horse.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle
haltera1000
bridleOE
brake1430
gorel1480
watering bridle1502
mollet-bridle1503
headgear1538
slipe1586
chase-halter1607
branks1657
bit-bridle1676
curb-bridle1677
chain-bridle1690
blind-halter1711
ox-riem1817
blind-bridle1833
bell-bridle1836
training halter1842
hackamore1850
Pelham bridle1875
quoiler1876
knee-halter1892
war bridle1962
side pull1965
1962 J. Onslow Bowler-hatted Cowboy xviii. 175 One summer day, they [sc. two horses] came home, gaunt, their heads bloody and scarred from ‘war bridles’ with which someone had tried to halter-break them.
war budget n. (a) U.S. a packet carried by American Indians, containing amulets and military trophies; (b) a budget to raise funds for a war.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > sign of victory > bag of trophies
war budget1813
war bag1820
1813 R. Stuart Jrnl. 14 Apr. in Discov. Oregon Trail (1935) x. 236 A Pole surpassing in height any put in the roof, is put out at the chimney where are suspended their Medicine Bags and War Budgets carefully concealed in innumerable wrappers.
1887 J. C. Morison Service of Man p. xv The removal of all fear of war would be even a greater gain than the suppression of war-budgets.
War Cabinet n. a Cabinet with responsibility for the political decisions of a country during a war.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > War Office > department, board, etc.
ordnance1485
military chest1745
War Cabinet1916
W.O.S.B.1945
War Ag1949
1916 Times 9 Dec. 9/2 It is an immense gain to have the Prime Minister definitely and irrevocably committed to the creation of a small War Cabinet, constantly..devoted to the prosecution of the war.
1940 J. Reith Diary 5 Jan. (1975) v. 237 I asked if the job carried War Cabinet rank and he said no.
1980 P. Fitzgerald Human Voices ii. 38 I don't know who authorised him to speak. I understand it was the War Cabinet.
war cemetery n. a cemetery for members of the armed forces who died in active service.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] > for the war dead
polyandrionc1612
polyandruma1661
war cemetery1895
1895 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 29 May 6/2 The first of these war cemeteries, after the one in Mexico, date from 1863.
1918 Times 22 Feb. 3/3 The erection over the graves of all officers and men in the war cemeteries abroad of headstones of uniform size.
1982 ‘J. Gash’ Firefly Gadroon xv. 145 There's a turning through the woods where the American War Cemetery stands.
2012 Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 27/1 An honour guard lowered their remains in a single casket at a Commonwealth war cemetery outside Kuala Lumpur.
war chest n. (a chest or strong box for) funds used in waging war; frequently used figuratively, esp. of funds used by a political party to finance an election campaign.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose > for other purposes
alms purse1530
privy purse1565
sinking fund1717
stakea1744
pension fund1757
spare-chest1769
road fund1784
revolving fund1793
community chest1796
provident fund1817
sustentation fund1837
wages-fund1848
slush fund1874
treasury chest fund1877
fall money1883
jackpot1884
provision1895
war chest1901
juice1935
fighting fund1940
structural fund1967
appeal fund1976
1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House Borgia 34 The papal jewels were pawned, and their price added to the war-chest.
1912 W. Deeping Sincerity xvi. 124 He had about forty pounds left, no great sum to start a war-chest with.
1932 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Aug. 1/6 (heading) War chests practically empty, parties curtail on campaign.
1973 R. L. Simon Big Fix iv. 34 All the guilt-stricken celebrities contributing to their war chest.
war-cloud n. a cloud of dust and smoke rising from a battle-field (cf. πολέμοιο νέϕος Iliad xvii. 243); figurative something that threatens war.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line > mist or dust of battlefield
war-cloud1823
1823 F. D. Hemans Last Constantine lxxxv, in Siege of Valencia 45 War-clouds have wrapt the city!
1908 C. W. Wallace Children of Chapel 172 Absence of reference in these two plays is negative proof that the personal war-cloud had passed, by 1602.
war college n. chiefly U.S. a college providing advanced instruction for senior officers of the armed services.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > place for training > college for officers
military academy1756
military college1801
staff college1868
war college1894
1894 Abstr. of Courses (Naval War Coll.) 3 The summer course at the Naval War College began on the 13th of June.
1913 R. Meinertzhagen Diary 1 Nov. (1960) 56 A joint war college for all branches of Government Services [in India] would be a God-send.
1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance i. 11 Talking in a calm War College vein.
war communism n. an economic policy, based on strict centralized control of the economy, adopted by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–22).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions
protection1719
co-operation1817
tariff-reform1859
monetary union1866
border protection1875
rationalization1875
tariffication1892
tariffade1904
inflationism1919
NEP1923
war communism1928
voodoo economics1930
substantivism1931
sterilization1938
deficit spending1941
deficit financing1943
tax-and-spend1956
indexation1960
stop-go1964
incomes policy1965
scala mobile1965
quantitative easing1966
jawboning1969
Nixonomics1969
developmentalism1970
degrowth1971
inflation-proofing1973
NEB1973
dollarization1982
fiscal engineering1982
Rogernomics1985
1928 M. Dobb Russ. Econ. Devel. since Revol. iii. 64 ‘War communism’, accordingly, sprang into life in the ‘forcing-house’ of a mortal struggle of the new régime—a struggle in which all things were subordinated to military necessity, and the problems of industry were simply regarded as..the problem of military supplies.
1965 B. Pearce tr. E. Preobrazhensky New Econ. 32 The economics of War Communism were those of a state economy of the war-consumption type, when we were not accumulating but were forced to spend our resources.
war-correspondent n. a journalist engaged by a newspaper to send home first-hand descriptions of the fighting.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > war-correspondent
war-correspondent1843
war reporter1950
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 205 ‘He is a man of fine moral elements’..said the war correspondent.
1870 A. Maverick Henry J. Raymond & N.Y. Press 256 The ‘war correspondents’ who had been sent out to the battle-fields to represent the newspapers of New York throve and grew famous.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed ii. 25 Dick was made free of the New and Honourable Fraternity of war correspondents.
war crime n. an offence against the rules of war, formerly excluding, but since the 1939–45 war including, any such act performed on the orders of a higher authority.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > other general types of crime
political offence1771
street crime1853
crime passionnel1892
war crime1906
inside job1908
outside job1925
single-o1930
hate crime1960
1906 L. Oppenheim Internat. Law II. 264 Violations of rules regarding warfare are war crimes only when committed without an order of the belligerent government concerned. If members of the armed forces commit violations by order of their government, they are not war criminals and may not be punished by the enemy; the latter can, however, resort to reprisals.
1945 Daily Express 16 May 1/1 The United Nations War Crimes Commission announced last night: Hermann Goering's name was placed..on the first list of persons charged with war crimes.
1980 Oxf. Compan. Law 1288/2 After World War II, three classes of offences against international law came to be regarded as war crimes, crimes against peace, as by planning or waging a war of aggression, conventional war crimes, or violations of the accepted laws or customs of warfare and crimes against humanity, including extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts.
war criminal n. one who has committed a war crime.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > other types of criminal
felon1297
misdemeanor1533
misfeasor1631
Alsatian1688
cosh-man1869
strong arm1893
street man1904
war criminal1906
Raffles1907
lone wolf1909
muscle man1929
single-o1930
hot rod1936
cosh1937
muscle boy1940
muscle1942
cosh-boy1953
cosh-bandit1954
slag1955
frightener1962
scammer1972
shonk1981
bail bandit1991
1906 [see Compounds 1c].
1929 W. S. Churchill World Crisis IV. viii. 158 An article of the Peace Treaty obliged the Germans to stigmatize all their greatest men and potentates as War Criminals.
1943 Ann. Reg. 1942 190 The question of the trial of war criminals ruffled..the ever-growing friendliness between Britain and America.
1981 J. Wainwright Urge for Justice 121 An organisation devoted to tracking down war criminals.
war damage n. damage caused by action taken by or against an enemy during a war.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > harm caused by war
war damage1939
1939 Act 2 & 3 Geo. VI c. 72 §4 Where the land comprised in a lease is unfit by reason of war damage, the following provisions..shall have effect.
1939 Act 2 & 3 Geo. VI c. 72 §24 ‘War damage’ means damage caused by, or in repelling, enemy action, or by measures taken to avoid the spreading of the consequences of damage caused by, or in repelling, enemy action.
1950 E. Hyams From Waste Land 10 Sharp and hopeful landlords claimed war-damage compensation.
1975 J. Cleary Safe House iv. 177 The walls were spattered with bullet and shrapnel marks..all war damage.
war-damaged adj.
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society > armed hostility > war > [adjective] > damaged by war
war-worna1616
war-damaged1946
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc.
bomb-battered1853
blitzed1941
bomb-pitted1943
bomb-damaged1945
bomb-shattered1945
atomized1946
war-damaged1946
1946 Mind 55 380 The Secretary reported appeals from war-damaged libraries in Europe.
1978 Times 8 May 9/8 Volunteers..shivering in war-damaged, makeshift offices.
war dead n. plural members of a country's armed forces who have died on active service.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun] > soldiers killed on active service
war dead1969
1969 J. Burmeister Hot & Copper Sky i. 17 They're French war dead. From the Indo-China campaign.
war diary n. (a) a diary recording the experiences of an individual during a war; (b) (see quot. 1918).
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > war diary (official)
war diary1917
society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > war diary (official) > personal
war diary1917
society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > other types of registers
Domesday Book1178
register1426
white bookc1432
town booka1547
christening book1558
muster1565
minute-book1566
Domes-booke1610
Newgate Calendar1686
time book1786
press book1808
provision book1840
visitors' book1846
guestbook1849
poison book1870
poison register1894
war diary1917
sign-in1966
society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] > other types of journal
book of remembrance1465
commentary1531
notebook1565
tablebook1582
remembrance booka1627
stam-book1662
memorandum book1683
memorandum paper1710
noctuary1714
workbook1766
memorandum tablet1774
journalet1776
birthday book1806
tickler1808
remembrancer1843
war diary1917
worksheet1925
pillow book1928
memory board1955
Daytimer1960
1917 W. J. Locke Red Planet i. 4 To fill in my time, I first started..a sort of War Diary.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 657 War diary, a record of events kept in campaign by each battalion and higher organization, each ammunition, supply, engineer, and sanitary train.
1937 R. Kipling Something of Myself iii. 49 An accursed Muscovite paper..published the war diaries of Alikhanoff, a Russian General.
1955 E. Waugh Officers & Gentlemen 142 Guy chalked the nightly wanderings of the Commandos on..his map and recorded them next day in the War Diary.
1981 J. Barnett Firing Squad ii. 105 The War Diary of Sergeant Michael Lugard.
war dream n. a dream about war.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > other specific types
gulf-dream1813
dreamlet1828
wet dream1851
dream sequence1893
wish-fulfilment1908
war dream1918
wish-dream1934
1918 W. Owen Let. 18 Feb. (1967) 534 I confess I bring on what few war dreams I now have, entirely by willingly considering war of an evening.
war-eagle n. the golden eagle, so called because the North American Indians decorate themselves with its feathers.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > genus Aquila > aquila chrysaetos (golden eagle)
royal eaglec1425
golden eagle1676
mountain eagle1802
war-bird1836
war-eagle1855
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha iv. 58 From his eyrie screamed..The Keneu, the great War-Eagle.
war economy n. (a) a measure taken in order to save money or other resources because of a war; (b) an economy, characteristic of wartime, in which a large part of the labour force is engaged in arms production, etc., rather than in the production of goods for export or for civilian use.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [noun] > saving or economizing > measure taken in war-time
salvage1918
war economy1919
austerity1937
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system
free market1642
peasant economy1883
agriculturism1885
money economy1888
price system1889
external economy1890
peace economy1905
war economy1919
planned economy1924
market economy1929
circular economy1932
managed economy1932
mixed economy1936
market socialism1939
plural economy1939
market capitalism1949
external diseconomy1952
siege economy1962
knowledge economy1967
linear economy1968
EMU1969
wage economy1971
grey economy1977
EMS1978
enterprise culture1979
new economy1981
tiger1981
share economy1983
gig economy2009
1919 W. B. Yeats Cutting of Agate 16 The Print Room of the British Museum is now closed as a war-economy.
1940 Economist 3 Feb. 189/1 The problem of war economy is to man and equip the Forces, to raise output for war and export needs to the utmost and to cut down civilian consumption.
1948 G. Crowther Outl. Money (rev. ed.) viii. 267 A peace economy..is chiefly interested in selling to foreign countries, a war economy in buying from them.
1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha 56 Like any girl caught up in a war economy. She had a pimp.
war effort n. (usually with the or possessive) the actions and behaviour of a nation at war, esp. military and civilian activity viewed as a single collective endeavour to withstand and defeat the enemy; see also home front n.Chiefly used during or with reference to the First World War (1914–18) or Second World War (1939–45).
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > war effort
war effort1914
1914 Manch. Guardian 23 Dec. 6/2 (headline) Britain's War Effort.
1916 Times 1 June 10/3 Were we developing the full result that the great effort made by the nation ought to produce? He could not believe that to be so when he considered the war effort made by France.
1934 W. S. Churchill Marlborough II. v. 101 Whigs and Tories alike wished the fleet to be used as a part of the main war-effort.
1954 N. Coward Future Indefinite iv. vii. 194 A job which..would be of real value to the war effort.
2006 B. Pilch Windows on Life v. 33 Robert Baden Powell..was keen that Boy Scouts should play an active role in the war effort.
war-fain adj. pseudo-archaic eager to fight.
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1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iii. 217 Guttorm the young and the war-fain.
war fever n. an enthusiasm for war.
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warlike inclination
war fever1812
bellicosity1884
war-mind1928
war-mindedness1936
war hysteria1940
1812 J. Steele Let. 23 Feb. in Papers (1924) II. 668 The late report of the Secty. of the Treasy. will cool the war fever in some.
1845 T. J. Green Texian Exped. ii. 24 After the President had succeeded in lulling the popular war-fever.
1908 H. G. Wells War in Air vi. 180 To the normal high-strung energy of New York streets was added a touch of war-fever.
1978 N. Gosling Paris 1900–14 187 In 1912 the slowly developing war fever..began to show itself in sinister local symptoms.
war-fighting n. the fighting of wars; also attributive.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > action of waging war
warrayinga1300
warring13..
warfarec1485
war-makingc1485
warfaring1598
waginga1674
levying1769
belligerence1814
war-fighting1965
1965 H. Kahn On Escalation 284 Deterrence-only is the opposite of ‘war-fighting’.
1983 Listener 10 Feb. 7/1 They are war-fighting weapons with a first-strike capability.
warfront n. the foremost part of the field of operations of opposing armies.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line
edge1535
front1665
firing line1859
Eastern Front1914
Western Front1914
line1916
second front1941
warfront1950
1950 Sun (Baltimore) 29 June 1 General MacArthur left for the South Korean warfront today.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 11 July 1- a/2 Lebanon's three major warfronts resounded to artillery, rocket and mortar fire.
war-game n. = kriegspiel n.; also attributive and figurative; also used of any game simulating war, esp. an elaborate game played with model soldiers, or of any exercise by which a military strategy is examined or tested.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > type of drill or training
sham fight1598
field exercise1616
martinet1677
field evolutions1789
foot drill1795
goose-step1806
war-game1828
rope drill1833
field training1836
repetition training1859
skeleton drill1876
drill-down1889
Beast Barracks1896
basic training1898
monkey motion1909
assault course1915
TEWT1942
workup1971
Taceval1977
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > other table games > [noun] > war game
war-game1828
kriegspiel1877
war-gaming1954
gaming1955
1828 A. B. Granville St. Petersburgh II. 75 The ‘war-game’ table, on which the present Emperor, when Grand-duke, used to play.
1891 Tablet 17 Oct. 613 A struggle more serious than that of any mere clerical war-game.
1910 H. G. Wells New Machiavelli (1911) i. iii. 84 The spectacle of volunteer officers fighting the war game in Caxton Hall.
1951 D. Knight In Deep (1964) 92 The cadets..carrying out one of the prescribed war games under the direction of student squad leaders.
1966 Punch 6 July 26/2 Entertaining incidental scenes (the children's war games, the husband's home movies, haggling over the junk) keep interest always alive.
1967 Guardian 16 Oct. 8/5 The National Wargame Championships organised by the British Model Soldier Society.
1970 Time 5 Oct. 13 At one point Nixon told Kissinger: ‘Let's you and me war-game this,’ and they worked the plans over to see, as Nixon put it, ‘where the weak points might be.’
1975 Times 2 June 13/1 Politicians of all parties cooped up in..Westminster have become so absorbed in their own war-games that they have lost touch with the wider world.
war-game v. (transitive) to examine or test (a strategy or the like).
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > make experiment of or with [verb (transitive)] > make trial run of
road test1890
dry-run1949
war-game1981
dogfood1997
1981 Washington Post 8 Nov. l1/6 ‘Well,’ Wakko said, ‘I've got to go back to work. We're war-gaming an LNW in Monaco.’
war-gamer n. one who plays a war-game.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > other table games > [noun] > war game > player
kriegsspieler1891
war-gamer1967
gamer1969
1967 Guardian 16 Oct. 8/5 One thing only is causing the wargamers concern. There are so many different societies in the field.
1982 M. Leapman Yankee Doodles IV. 208 War-gamers are not the only people undertaking such simulations.
war-gaming n. the playing of war-games; the use of such games to examine or test strategies.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > type of drill or training > use of
war-gaming1954
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > other table games > [noun] > war game
war-game1828
kriegspiel1877
war-gaming1954
gaming1955
1954 J. F. McCloskey & F. M. Trefethen Operations Res. for Managem. I. 15 They used the technique of war-gaming to develop models of possible operations, then ‘tested’ various tactics and weapons.
1970 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 43/2 Today war-gaming has reached a point of sophistication where one almost needs a computer to play.
1980 J. McNeil Spy Game ix. 96 War gaming is like that, dashed unpredictable.
war gas n. a gas or other chemical agent used in war to produce irritant or poisonous effects.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisonous gas > used in war
mustard gas1917
yperite1917
phosgene1918
war gas1934
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > gas
poison gas1816
gas1897
mustard gas1917
tear-gas1917
yperite1917
mustard1918
phosgene1918
riot gas1930
war gas1934
nausea gas1936
nerve gas1940
tear-smoke1946
Sarin1951
Soman1951
pepper gas1968
stun gas1968
pepper spray1986
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. War gas.
1939 L. W. Marrison tr. M. Sartori War Gases p. viii The most efficient war gases are organic compounds, the inorganic compounds which have great toxicity being unsuitable for use owing to their physical and chemical properties.
1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. vii. 134 In 1968, 6000 sheep were accidentally killed in Utah, allegedly as a result of exposure to the war gas VX that was being tested by the Army about 17 miles away.
war generation n. generation which has experienced a war.
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1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner i. 18 They were a dreary lot that war generation.
1978 M. Cadogan & P. Craig Women & Children First ii. 47 The sense of isolation that characterized the war generation.
war grave n. a grave, esp. one in a war cemetery, for a member of the armed forces who died in active service.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > of one who died in battle
bed of honoura1616
honour's bed1838
war grave1915
1915 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 3/3 (headline) To plant flowers on war graves.
1917 Imperial War. Conf. 5 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 8566) XXIII. 323 The Conference..humbly prays His Majesty to constitute by Royal Charter an Imperial War Graves Commission.
2013 Oldie Apr. 43/1 The war graves of northern France.
war guilt n. the responsibility for having caused a war; esp. German responsibility for having caused the First World War (1914–18), as asserted in Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles (1919) (often known as the war-guilt clause).Although apparently intended only to establish Germany's legal liability for reparations, Article 231 was widely interpreted in Germany as an admission of guilt and caused widespread public resentment there.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > responsibility for war
war guilt1917
1917 Times 30 Aug. 6/1 (headline) War guilt of Germany.
1918 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 2 June 7/1 Prince Lichnowsky..places the war-guilt directly and without equivocation upon the Imperial German government.
1924 Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald-News 30 June 11/4 Germans are united in a protest against the ‘war guilt clause’ of the treaty which holds Germany solely responsible for the war.
1986 J. B. Jacobs Socio-Legal Found. Civil-Mil. Relations vii. 159 Vietnam Veterans Against the War sought to make American society accept its war guilt.
2005 D. Redles Hitler's Millennial Reich 19 The infamous war-guilt clause..was another point of national humiliation.
2010 R. C. Doyle Enemy in our Hands viii. 178 The Nazis sought revenge for the Allied-imposed war guilt, which the Germans never accepted.
† war-hable adj. [hable = able adj.; compare habile adj.] Obsolete fit for war, of military age.
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society > armed hostility > military service > [adjective] > liable for service
fenciblec1325
war-hable1590
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y4v The weary Britons, whose war-hable youth Was by Maximian lately ledd away.
war-hatchet n. a hatchet used by the North American Indians to symbolize the declaration or cessation of hostilities (see quots. and cf. hatchet n. Phrases 1a).
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society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > call to arms > by symbol
fire cross1523
fiery cross1587
crostarie1685
war-kettle1754
war-hatchet1760
war-post1826
war-arrow1865
1760 G. Groghan Jrnl. 4 Dec. in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1904) I. 116 That you [sc. chiefs and warriors]..may..bury the War Hatchet in the Bottomless Pitt.
1796 J. Wolcot Wks. IV. 485 Gentle Reader, Wouldst thou not have imagined that the war hatchet was buried for ever?
a1816 B. Hawkins Sketch Creek Country 1798 & 1799 in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1848) III. 72 He lifts the war hatchet against the nation which has injured them.
1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer II. xv. 247 Our great fathers, across the Salt Lake, have sent each other the war-hatchet.
1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. ix. 224 The bundle of arrows wrapped in a rattlesnake's skin, or the blood-red war-hatchet struck into the war-post.
war-hawk n. U.S. one who is eager for the fray, a ‘brave’.
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warmongering > warmonger
war-hawk1798
war-dog1813
war-man1814
warmonger1817
levier1831
sabre-rattler1928
hot warrior1950
1798 T. Jefferson Let. to J. Madison 26 Apr. in Writings (1854) IV. 238 At present, the war hawks talk of septembrizing, [etc.].
1815 S. Taggart Let. 19 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 332 Our war-hawks..affect to speak of it as a glorious war and an honorable peace.
1865 F. Parkman Champlain ix, in Pioneers of France in New World 308 The Indian tribes, war-hawks of the wilderness.
warhead n. (of a torpedo see quot. 1898); also, that of any missile, esp. one deriving its destructive power from the release of nuclear energy.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > head of missile
warhead1898
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > torpedo > parts of
whisker1880
warhead1898
1898 F. T. Jane Torpedo 19 The parts of a torpedo are as follows:—(a) The explosive head (war head). This is only fitted when the torpedo is to be used in earnest: for practice, a collapsible head is fitted.
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 20 June 3/3 Explosive carried in a warhead [of a German robot plane] is equal to a 2,200 pound German bomb.
1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Apr. 168/3 In the not too distant future we can foresee the dominance of intercontinental guided missiles with hydrogen war heads.
1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xlv. 447 I was now prepared to call everyone else's bluff, and declare for a rocket of 12 tons all-up weight with a 1 ton warhead.
† war-headling n. Obsolete a military chieftain or commander.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun]
heretogac900
marshal1258
chevetaine1297
chieftainc1330
arrayerc1370
governora1382
master of (the) chivalrya1382
leadera1387
war-headlinga1400
emperorc1400
captain1450
conductor1483
grand captain1531
commendador1580
lodesman1581
conducta1592
commander1598
induperator1599
war-captain1610
war-chief1610
war-leader1610
most mastera1616
commandant1687
commandant-general1827
baron1919
a1400 Coer de L. 2011 Sir, thus thou shalt lere To mis-say thy werhedlynge.
war hero n. a man who has acted heroically in a war.
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the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > brave warrior
thanec893
berne937
helethOE
wightlingc1330
felona1400
viragoa1513
thunderer1586
paladin1592
Fian1787
beau sabreur1834
war hero1898
1898 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 19 Dec. 1/5 Following are the names of the members of the entertainment committee who received the war heroes.
1953 L. P. Hartley Go-between iv. 59 I already felt violently jealous of Trimingham, and the fact that he was a war-hero did not recommend him to me.
1982 T. Allbeury Shadow of Shadows v. 44 Your father was a war hero. He was awarded..the Legion of Honour.
war heroine n.
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the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > heroine
heroine1587
heroess1612
lady errant1615
Bellona1820
shero1836
hero-woman1847
tiger-cat1863
war heroine1932
lad1935
1932 New Yorker 9 Jan. 34/1 On the sidewalks are..a few war heroines with nothing to sell.
1979 ‘D. Kyle’ Green River High viii. 106 We..read: War heroine returns to Sarawak.
war-hound n. figurative (cf. war-dog n.).
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society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun]
wyec900
rinkeOE
earlOE
manlOE
champion?c1225
warrer?c1225
drightmanc1275
here-dringc1275
here-gumec1275
here-kempec1275
wal-kempc1275
warrior1297
battlerc1300
fighterc1300
battle-wrighta1400
man-of-war1449
frekec1475
war-manc1485
combatant1489
Mars1565
warfarer1591
combater1598
Mavortian1598
brave1601
fire-eater1792
war-wolf1810
war-hound1812
war-dog1846
toa1860
Mavors1868
fightist1877
ninja1964
simba1964
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xl. 28 What gallant war-hounds rouse them from their lair, And gnash their fangs, loud yelling for the prey.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur ii. civ Unleash the warhounds—stay us those who can!
War House n. slang the War Office.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > War Office
War Office1721
War Department1797
W.D.1855
W.O.1860
Seraskierate1876
pall-mall1880
war room1914
War House1925
Stavka1928
pentagon1942
War Box1952
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility > English or British
admiralty1459
ordnance1485
Navy Office1660
navy board1681
patent office1696
excise-office1698
Treasury Office1706
Plantation Office1708
stamp office1710
War Office1721
India Office1787
home office1795
Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues1803
the Stamps1820
Welsh Office1852
W.O.1860
Local Government Board1871
pall-mall1880
Scottish Office1883
Ministry of Munitions1915
War House1925
Min of Ag1946
Mintech1967
DOE1972
Manpower Services Commission1973
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 300 War House, the, General Staff slang for the War Office.
1926 ‘Sapper’ Final Count xii. 302 They thought I was mad at the War House.
1978 D. Wheatley Time has Come iii. 29 A man in control at the War House who had an enormous hold upon the popular imagination.
war hysteria n. unhealthy emotion or excitement caused by war; an enthusiasm for war.
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warlike inclination
war fever1812
bellicosity1884
war-mind1928
war-mindedness1936
war hysteria1940
1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 172 The very people who..had sniggered over their own superiority to war hysteria were the ones who rushed..into the mental slum of 1915.
1968 O. Wynd Sumatra Seven Zero ii. 20 Birgid is the child of my war hysteria. Her father was a blond Norwegian.
war machine n. (a) an instrument or weapon of war; (b) the military resources of a country organized for waging war.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] > an equipment or instrument of war
enablement1495
war machine1749
society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > organization of war
war machine1914
society > armed hostility > military power > [noun] > military resources
defence1798
war machine1914
1749 in tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) XII. Index p. xxxv/2 Corvus, war machine.
1766 R. Andrews tr. Virgil Aeneid iv. in Wks. 223 Unfinish'd hang the works, Huge walls, and war-machines that threat the sky.
1800 London Chron. 7 Feb. 135/2 He hoped the House would pause before they let down the war machine, which had been so successfully employed by this country to secure the independence of Europe.
1881 W. D. Hay 300 Years Hence iv. 70 The last inventions in war-machines.
1914 W. J. Bryan Mem. (1925) 390 The allies see peace only in a success so signal as to crush the German war machine.
1979 Sci. Amer. Mar. 123/1 With the introduction of catapults, together with other war machines just coming into use in the West, sieges became more effective.
2000 Observer 18 June 29/3 The United Nations and the might of the Pentagon's war machine dithered in Mogadishu.
war marriage n. a marriage taking place in wartime, esp. one in which the bridegroom is on active service.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > in wartime
war wedding1915
war marriage1921
1921 ‘C. Dane’ Bill of Divorcem. ii. 54 If it hadn't been for the war—and the war marriages.
war medicine n. North American (a form of) magic formerly used by North American Indians to ensure success in war; also figurative.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > American Indian medicine > to ensure success in war
war medicine1805
1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 11 Jan. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 271 Some of our men go to See a war medison..made at the village on the opposit Side of the river.
1893 Chicago Tribune 28 Apr. 4/1 Gov. Altgeld..proceeded to administer a dose of war medicine he had been making for some time.
1962 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Ess. Social Anthropol. v. 95 He used some of these forms of magic himself, getting old commoners to bring the medicines and perform the rites, except in the case of the war-medicines, which he administered himself, from the large bongo horn in which they were kept.
war memorial n. a monument, etc., commemorating those (esp. from a particular locality) killed in a war, and frequently inscribed with their names.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > others
ossuary1872
palimpsest1876
war memorial1912
field monument1923
time capsule1938
1912 A. Huxley Let. 16 June (1969) 44 They are also on the point of putting up a war memorial, though none of the people who were in the war want it and it is now a little late in the day.
1930 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 324 The little cast-iron poilu, which seemed to be standard pattern for War memorials in that region.
1980 P. Lively Judgement Day v. 55 The starling flew across the nave, crashed into the War Memorial window..and thumped to the ground.
war-mind n. a mind attuned to or desirous of war.
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warlike inclination
war fever1812
bellicosity1884
war-mind1928
war-mindedness1936
war hysteria1940
1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War iii. 27 The joyful path away from the line..was full of pictures for my infant war-mind.
1932 H. Crane Let. 13 Apr. (1965) 409 Dos Passos has written a very important record of the war and the ‘war mind’ in 1919.
war-minded adj. having such a mind.
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [adjective] > inclined to war
bellicose1432
warful1530
contentious1535
bellicous1536
philopolemic1793
philopolemical1827
warlike1915
war-minded1936
1936 Mind 45 289 A society which prefers war to peace and organises itself for success in war, may be rational in the above sense, if (a) the majority of its members are genuinely war-minded, and (b) the small minority of pacifists in its ranks is allowed to express..its dissenting opinion.
1948 W. Fortescue Beauty for Ashes xxii. 172 At intervals it stopped..to allow warminded little boys to finger the ugly noses of guns.
war-mindedness n.
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warlike inclination
war fever1812
bellicosity1884
war-mind1928
war-mindedness1936
war hysteria1940
1936 H. Read Surrealism 36 Motives no less irrational than those which promote war-mindedness.
war-minister n. the person who directs the war-affairs of a state; the Secretary of State for War.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government minister > [noun] > minister in British government > of specific department
Chancellor of the Exchequerc1330
Lords (Commissioners) of the Treasury1642
foreign secretary1734
Home Secretary1784
war-minister1790
oil minister1960
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 312 From my heart I pity the condition of a respectable servant of the public, like this war minister . View more context for this quotation
war museum n. a museum of the history of warfare in general, or of warfare during a particular period.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > [noun] > museum > type of
antiquarium1651
war museum1917
folk-museum1936
museumobile1948
Exploratorium1968
ecomuseum1976
heritage centre1976
exploratory1982
1917 Times 20 Feb. 11/3 At No. 6, Avenue de Malakoff..in two spacious first-floor appartements..is housed the War Museum which, when complete, will be presented to the French nation.
1967 O. Wynd Walk Softly x. 165 An inspirational experience in a war museum.
1979 E. Bercovici Wolf Trap 161 The War Museum on the upper fortress fascinated him.
war orphan n. a child orphaned by war.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > orphan
stepchild971
stepbairnc1000
pupilc1384
orphana1450
orphelinc1450
orpheninc1450
orphanera1500
ward1559
orphanet1604
little Orphan Annie1910
war orphan1915
1915 W. Owen Let. 29 June (1967) 342 All France is collecting for its War Orphans.
1971 H. McCloy Question of Time i. 14 The nuns kept on trying to trace the families of war orphans left in their care.
war pension n. a pension paid to someone disabled or widowed by war.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment in consideration of past service > types of
out-pension1711
commandery1721
state pension1745
flying pensionc1770
war pension1930
SERPS1983
eligible termination payment1984
1930 E. H. Young Miss Mole xxv. 224 The little poultry farm which was to supplement..the hero's war pension.
1980 Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 14/5 His mother brought him up alone on a war pension plus what she could make by smocking children's clothes.
war picture n. (a) a painting of which the theme is war; (b) a photograph of a scene from the theatre of war; also, a documentary film of action from a war, and transferred a written account of this; (c) a cinematographic film with war as its subject or background (the usual sense); cf. war film n., war movie n. at Compounds 1g.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by style or subject
high key1849
carte1861
carte-de-visite1861
wedding group1861
vignette1862
studio portrait1869
press photograph1873
cameo-type1874
war picture1883
mug1887
panel1888
snapshot1890
visite1891
fuzz-type1893
stickyback1903
action photograph1904
action picture1904
scenic1913
still1916
passport photo1919
mosaic1920
press photo1923
oblique1925
action shot1927
passport photograph1927
profile shot1928
smudgea1931
glossy1931
photomontage1931
photomural1931
head shot1936
pin-up1943
mug shot1950
wedding photograph1956
wedding photo1966
full-frontal1970
photofit1970
split beaver1972
upskirt1994
selfie2002
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > historical painting > a historical painting > type of
battle-piece1713
murdering piece1797
synchronism1843
war picture1883
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types
romantic comedy1748
epic1785
pre-release1871
foreign film1899
frivol1903
dramedy1905
film loop1906
first run1910
detective film1911
colour film1912
news film1912
topical1912
cinemicrograph1913
scenic1913
sport1913
newsreel1914
serial1914
sex comedy1915
war picture1915
telefilm1919
comic1920
true crime1923
art house1925
quickie1926
turkey1927
two-reeler1928
smellie1929
disaster film1930
musical1930
feelie1931
sticky1934
action comedy1936
quota quickie1936
re-release1936
screwball comedy1937
telemovie1937
pickup1939
video film1939
actioner1940
space opera1941
telepic1944
biopic1947
kinescope1949
TV movie1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
deepie1953
misterioso1953
film noir1956
policier1956
psychodrama1956
free film1958
prequel1958
co-production1959
glossy1960
sexploiter1960
sci-fier1961
tie-in1962
chanchada1963
romcom1963
wuxia1963
chick flick1964
showreel1964
mockumentary1965
sword-and-sandal1965
schlockbuster1966
mondo1967
peplum1968
thriller1968
whydunit1968
schlocker1969
buddy-buddy movie1972
buddy-buddy film1974
buddy film1974
science-fictioner1974
screwball1974
buddy movie1975
slasher movie1975
swashbuckler1975
filmi1976
triptych1976
autobiopic1977
Britcom1977
kidflick1977
noir1977
bodice-ripper1979
chopsocky1981
date movie1983
kaiju eiga1984
screener1986
neo-noir1987
indie1990
bromance2001
hack-and-slash2002
mumblecore2005
dark fantasy2007
hack-and-slay2007
gorefest2012
kidult-
1883 B. Potter Jrnl. 28 Apr. (1966) 39 First we went to the Fine Arts Gallery..to see..the Egyptian war pictures.
1900 (title) War pictures.
1914 R. Grau Theatre of Sci. ii. 40 The war pictures released by this company reflected the high aims of a man.
1915 V. Woolf Diary 25 Jan. (1977) I. 28 The Picture Palace was a little disappointing—as we never got to the War pictures, after waiting 1 hour & a half.
1946 J. B. Priestley Bright Day viii. 246 Honest war pictures, made on the spot here by people who know what it's like.
1978 Listener 30 Mar. 410/1 In Which We Serve I remember as the best war picture that I have ever seen.
war poet n. a poet writing on the subject of war, (now) esp. one in military service during the First World War (1914–18).
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1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 370/1 War, as he [sc. Scott] describes it, is a noble game, a kingly pastime. He is the greatest of all War-Poets.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. vi. 177 The true war poets..have been warriors themselves. Körner and Alcæus fought as well as sang.
1921 N.Y. Times 15 May 45/1 The war made him [sc. Wilfred Owen] a poet..and it is, perhaps, a not unreasonable prediction that, as the years drift by, he will eventually be known as the war poet.
1962 Listener 8 Feb. 259/3 By ‘war poet’ we now automatically assume anti-war poet. This was no tacit assumption in 1916.
2008 J. C. Horn in A. R. Wilson & M. L. Perry War, Virtual War & Society 36 The elegies of Owen, Sassoon, Graves, Blunden and the other war poets were not even widely read until the 1930s.
warplane n. an aeroplane equipped for fighting, bombing, etc., in war-time.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare
war-bird1836
warplane1911
battleplane1915
1911 Flight 16 Dec. 1078/2 No one has any very definite ideas of what the future type of war-plane will be like.
1938 C. Day Lewis Overtures to Death 17 Oh, look at the warplanes! Screaming hysteric treble In the long power-dive, like gannets they fall steep.
1967 A. MacLean Where Eagles Dare xi. 230 The Mosquito bomber, all engines and plywood, was, he was well aware, the fastest warplane in the world.
1978 Guardian Weekly 4 June 16/1 Categories so politically volatile as warplanes.
war-post n. a post into which North American Indians strike the war-hatchet.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > call to arms > by symbol
fire cross1523
fiery cross1587
crostarie1685
war-kettle1754
war-hatchet1760
war-post1826
war-arrow1865
1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans II. vi. 108 None of my young men strike the tomahawk deeper into the war-post.
1881 [see war material n. at Compounds 1b(a)].
war refugee n. one who seeks refuge in another country, etc., from the effects of war; a displaced person.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > exile > [noun] > refugee or stateless person > specific
palatine1708
palatinate1709
political refugee1798
reffo1941
war refugee1942
boat person1979
Marielito1980
1942 D. Powell Time to be Born vii. 163 Amanda was nobly..adopting a war refugee.
1973 ‘B. Mather’ Snowline iii. 33 There are three million war refugees from Bangladesh in West Bengal.
war reporter n. = war-correspondent n.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > war-correspondent
war-correspondent1843
war reporter1950
1950 E. H. Gombrich Story of Art 118 The final result is possibly more impressive than the accounts of our own war reporters and newsreel men.
war-reporting n.
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society > communication > journalism > [noun] > reporting > war-reporting
war-reporting1976
1976 S. Hynes Auden Generation x. 342 Compared to war-reporting of the Spanish war..Journey to a War is superficial and uninformative.
war resistance n. opposition to war, pacifism.
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society > armed hostility > peace > pacific character or disposition > [noun] > pacifism as a principle
conscientious objection1863
pacifism1902
pacificism1908
war resistance1932
1932 Week-End Rev. 19 Nov. 611/2 We appeal to those who wish to take part in a truly practical and effective effort at war resistance to send us a donation.
war resister n. an opponent of war or of a particular war.
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society > armed hostility > peace > pacific character or disposition > [noun] > pacifist in principle
peace man1795
antipolemist1817
pacifist1906
pacificist1907
conscientious objector1916
Percy1916
conchie1917
passivist1919
war resister1935
dove1962
1935 J. Bell in We did not Fight p. xviii The most active and ardent war resisters..are more likely to take the line of revolutionary action than conscientious objection.
1976 Pacifist Jan. 10/1 We remain an organisation of war-resisters.
war risk n. Insurance (chiefly Marine Insurance) a risk of loss, etc., during war-time; frequently in plural and attributive.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > [noun] > risk of financial loss
risgoe1638
to run a risco1657
risk1662
risk1734
market risk1918
war risk1920
uncertainty1921
1920 Lloyd's List Law Rep. 22 July 288/2 I am perfectly clear this is a case that is not brought within the War Risk Policy.
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. War risk insurance, term insurance written by the United States Government for members of the military and naval forces.
1939 Country Life 11 Feb. 133/2 An insurance against war risks should be attached to Schedule ‘A’.
1974 E. R. H. Ivamy Marine Insurance (ed. 2) xv. 219 The term ‘war risk’ in a marine policy has been held to include a civil war.
war road n. North American = warpath n. 1 (concrete).
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society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > warpath (of Indians)
warpath1768
war road1782
1782 in V. W. Howard Bryan Station Heroes & Heroines (1932) xii. 144 On the Southward side below where the War road crosses the said fork.
1968 E. S. Russenholt Heart of Continent ii. iii. 41 Canadians and Indians follow the old Indian war road.
war room n. a room from which a war or part of a war is directed.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > War Office
War Office1721
War Department1797
W.D.1855
W.O.1860
Seraskierate1876
pall-mall1880
war room1914
War House1925
Stavka1928
pentagon1942
War Box1952
1914 A. Wilson Let. 29 Oct. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III. Compan. i. 233 I should like to have a room set apart for me near the War room.
1976 J. Lee Ninth Man i. 82 The War Room occupied the southwest corner of the main floor of the White House.
war-substantive adj. [substantive adj. 2e] confirmed (in a rank) for the duration of a war.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [adjective] > other attributes
gallant1875
technical1915
temporary1918
war-substantivea1944
a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) ii. 13 He had..returned to his war-substantive rank of captain.
1965 New Statesman 10 Dec. 919/1 How could a poor war-substantive captain hope to hold his own against someone like Colonel Passy.
war-talk n. (a) a formal discussion among North American Indian chiefs about war; also figurative; (b) talk about war in general.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > other types of conversation
diabologuea1713
giff-gaff1787
by-dialogue1817
question and answer1817
war-talk1831
fast talk1866
heart-to-heart1904
pseudo-conversation1926
team talk1947
psychodrama1952
catch-up1972
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > discussion > discussion of terms > of particular type
war-talk1831
collective bargaining1891
package deal1940
proximity talks1971
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. 38 Then they call a war-talk, and say they would speak with these white men.
1833 Sketches & Eccentricities D. Crockett (1834) xiv. 185 His public harangues, or his war talks, as electioneering speeches are called in the west.
1861 M. B. Chesnut Diary 23 Apr. in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) iii. 53 Maria—are you crying because all this war talk scares you?
1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 475/1 The little pitchers with big ears have been taking in a good deal of war talk.
1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune iii. i. 264 You're not letting this war-talk throw a scare into you?
war toy n. a toy with which a child can play war-games.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others
spurc1450
cock1608
turnel1621
corala1625
house of cardsa1625
Jack-in-the-box1659
(Prince) Rupert's Drops1662
sucker1681
whirligig1686
playbook1694
card house1733
snapper1788
card castle1792
Aaron's bells?1795
Noah's Ark1807
Jacob's ladder1820
cat-stairs1825
daisy chain1841
beanbag1861
playboat1865
piñata1868
teething ring1872
weet-weet1878
tumble-over1883
water cracker1887
jumping-bean1889
play money1894
serpentin1894
comforter1898
pacifier1901
dummy1903
bubble water1904
yo-yo1915
paper airplane1921
snowstorm1926
titty1927
teaser1935
Slinky1948
teether1949
Mr Potato Head1952
squeeze toy1954
Frisbee1957
mobile1957
chew toy1959
water-rocket1961
Crazy Foam1965
playshop1967
war toy1973
waterball1974
pull-along1976
transformer1984
Aerobie1985
1973 M. Kaye Toy is Born xv. 114 It is interesting to note that the hue and cry against war toys a few years ago had little effect on Avalon Hill.
war-trail n. = warpath n.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] > used by warlike expedition
warpath1768
war-trail1851
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xxvi. 41 Over the western section of this great prairie passes the Apache war-trail.
war trial n. the trial of a person for a war crime or crimes; cf. Nuremberg trial n. at Nuremberg n. 3c.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > trial > other types of trial
oyer?a1475
trial by proviso1676
political trial1774
drumhead court-martial1835
trial at bar1866
speedy trial1894
show trial1928
treason trial1930
war trial1949
split trial1960
spy trial1972
1949 R. Chandler Let. 25 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 149 There is an element of hypocrisy in these war trials.
1971 P. D. James Shroud for Nightingale vii. 242 He'd seen her before... In Germany. She was in the dock. It was a war trial.
war veteran n. originally U.S. = veteran n. 1b.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > ex-soldier or ex-serviceman
veteran1577
old soldier1640
war veteran1906
VFW1920
Old Bill1925
oudstryder1942
1906 N.Y. Evening Post 29 Jan. 1 A guard of honor selected from the ranks of the Spanish war veterans here.
1980 J. McClure Blood of Englishman x. 92 War veterans... It'd all gone a bit to their heads.
war-weary adj. (a) weary of war; (b) U.S. spec. applied to aircraft badly damaged in war-time, and which are withdrawn from service for repair, conversion, or scrapping; also elliptical as n.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > by or of battle, fighting, or war
forfoughtenc1275
weary of-foughtc1330
foughten1786
war-weary1895
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > damaged and withdrawn from service
war-weary1895
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > damaged and withdrawn from service
war-weary1895
1895 W. B. Yeats Poems 7 I have not yet, war-weary king, Been spoken of with any man.
1902 Edinb. Rev. July 39 Campbell's ‘Soldier's Dream’ is the most beautiful rendering in English verse of the war-weary mood.
1945 Sat. Evening Post 17 Mar. 20 Thousands of once precious B-17's are now ‘war-wearies’. Not worth salvaging, they clutter up foreign and domestic airfields.
1945 Fortune Aug. 208 Five war-weary Liberators, described with horrors by their pilots as ‘clunkers’.
war wedding n. = war marriage n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > in wartime
war wedding1915
war marriage1921
1915 Truth 4 Aug. 181/2 What do we hear from London about war-weddings?
war-woman n. (see quot.).
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > interpretation of dreams > [noun] > one who practises > Native American
war-woman1786
1786 J. Ferriar in Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. (1790) 3 28 In every Indian village, the war-woman..is a kind of oracle; by dreams and presages, she directs the hunters to their prey, and the warriors to the enemy.
war work n. special work occasioned by war, and which is intended to advance the war effort.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > other types of work
church worka1225
kirk work1418
fieldwork1441
labour of love1592
life's work1660
shop work1696
outwork1707
private practice1724
tide-work1739
sales-work1775
marshing1815
work in progress1815
life-work1837
relief work1844
sharp practice1847
near work1850
slop-work1861
repetition work1866
side work1875
rework1878
wage-slavery1886
work in progress1890
war work1891
busywork1893
screen work1912
staff-work1923
gig work1927
knowledge work1959
WIP1966
telework1970
playwork1986
laboratory work2002
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed ii. 24 Do you want me to do war-work?
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed iv. 64 He has thrown up war work.
1916 A. Huxley Let. 2 Mar. (1969) 92 A friend of mine at Magdalen, a Quaker..objected to war-work of any kind, combatant or non-.
1954 W. K. Hancock Country & Calling vii. 189 The answer to that difficulty was for my wife to take up paid war work in place of the voluntary work she had been doing in Birmingham.
1977 Belfast Tel. 14 Feb. 9/6 Rene, who was in Mackie's on war work, lived with her widowed father and looked after her young brothers.
war-worker n. a person undertaking war work; also transferred.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [noun] > war-worker
war-worker1915
1915 Polit. Q. May 108 It is not clear whether or no the special..war-workers..will be permanently shut out of the trades.
1930 E. Blunden De Bello Germanico iv. 41 War-workers varying from whizzbangs to woolly bears.
1978 M. Cadogan & P. Craig Women & Children First ii. 48 The experiences of the war workers had been thoroughly documented.
war-worthiness n.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > suitability for war
war-worthiness1909
1909 Q. Rev. Oct. 578 The aim must now be..to seize every opportunity to improve its war-worthiness.
war-worthy adj. suitable for or befitting war.
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society > armed hostility > war > [adjective] > suitable for war
war-worthy1908
1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd vii. viii. 330 Ney holds indignantly that such a feint Is not war-worthy.

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war hammer n. any of various types of heavy hammer, typically with a spiked or pointed head, used as a weapon; a maul.
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1861 Prescott (Pierce County, Wisconsin) Transcript 20 July 1/3 And again the war-hammer Up swingeth to slay!
1923 Burlington Mag. Apr. 190 (caption) War-hammer, probably North European of the 14th century.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 9 Mar. 8 The tourists watching Mr Martin taking blows on the head from a steel war hammer..were sceptical.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

warn.2

Brit. /wɔː/, U.S. /wɔr/
Etymology: Thevenot's rendering of a dialect variant of Hindi baḍ.
Obsolete. rare.
The Banyan-tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Asian trees or shrubs > [noun] > banyan tree
Indian fig1382
Indian fig tree1594
banian-tree1638
war1687
peepul tree1783
burr1813
Brahminy fig tree1814
bo tree1820
bodhi tree1838
pagoda tree1876
waringin1889
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 25 Trees of several kinds; as Manguiers, Palms, Mirabolans, Wars, Maisa-trees.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 25 We saw the War-tree in its full extent. It is likewise called Ber, and the Tree of Banians.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

warv.1

Brit. /wɔː/, U.S. /wɔr/
Forms: Inflected warred /wɔːd/, warring /ˈwɔːrɪŋ/. Forms: Middle English uuerrien, Middle English wurre, weorre, weorri, Middle English worri, worry, Middle English worre, werri, werry, Middle English–1500s werre, Middle English werr, Middle English wer, were, Middle English–1600s warre, 1500s warr, dialect var, Scottish weir(e, Middle English, 1500s– war.
Etymology: < war n.1 Compare the equivalent Old French guerrer , *werrer ; also werreier warray v.
†1.
a. transitive. To make war upon. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > war > wage (war) [verb (transitive)] > wage war against or upon
to have wara1122
war1154
warraya1340
1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1135 Dauid king of Scotland toc to uuerrien him.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4636 Þe kunde men of þis lond recetted were þere [i.e. in Wales] Euere wanne of straunge men yworred hii were.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4987 Ac penda þe heþene duc adde euere god wille To worry him [Oswy] & don him ssame.
c1383 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) Oct. 744 Þough it be leful in caas to werre & sleen euele cristene men..whanne riȝtfulnesse..shulde perisshen elles.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 363 To passe over the grete See To werre and sle the Sarazin.
a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 49 Sepe expugnauerunt. Oft they werreden me fro my ȝouthe sey now israel.
c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. cxxvi. vi. (1812) 244 Kyng Henry warred Robert Estenuyle.
1534 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 186 The traison, rebellion, extorcion, and wilfull ware of your forsaid Erles,..the one varing, burning, and distroing the other.
1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. xxx. 95 To warre the Scot, and Borders to defend.
figurative.?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 181 Castel is euch god mon þet þe feont weorreð.c1275 Five Joys of the Virgin 26 in Old Eng. Misc. 89 Al hire weorreþ þat wuneþ ine londe.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 57 Þe tauerne is..þe dyeules castel uor to werri god an his halȝen.c1366 G. Chaucer A.B.C. 116 He not to werre us swich a wonder wroughte [Fr. ne cuit pas que fust pour guerre], But for to save us that he sithen boughte.1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 156 Al the day of oure lyfe in grete Perill we byth, for thre enemys ws werryth.1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) viii. lxxv. 222 Loue and Ambition..tyranniz'd on his diuided hart, Warring each other with a powrefull part.
†b. To ravage (a city, land, etc.) by warlike operations; to harry. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > invade [verb (transitive)] > overrun or harry
begoa855
harryc893
war1297
overridea1375
yerna1400
overrun?a1425
overharry1600
harrow1606
harassa1618
sweep1788
jay-hawk1866
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 43 Engelond haþ ibe inome & iwerred ilome [v.rr. iworred, werred].
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7648 Hii worrede al norþhomberlond, & uorþ euere as hii come.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxci. 93 Thus in euery parte was the realme of Fraunce warrede in the tytell of the kynge of Nauer.
†c. To harass, persecute. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)]
tawc893
ermec897
swencheOE
besetOE
bestandc1000
teenOE
baitc1175
grieve?c1225
war?c1225
noyc1300
pursuec1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
tribula1325
worka1325
to hold wakenc1330
chase1340
twistc1374
wrap1380
cumbera1400
harrya1400
vexc1410
encumber1413
inquiet1413
molest?a1425
course1466
persecutec1475
trouble1489
sturt1513
hare1523
hag1525
hale1530
exercise1531
to grate on or upon1532
to hold or keep waking1533
infest1533
scourge1540
molestate1543
pinch1548
trounce1551
to shake upa1556
tire1558
moila1560
pester1566
importune1578
hunt1583
moider1587
bebait1589
commacerate1596
bepester1600
ferret1600
harsell1603
hurry1611
gall1614
betoil1622
weary1633
tribulatea1637
harass1656
dun1659
overharry1665
worry1671
haul1678
to plague the life out of1746
badger1782
hatchel1800
worry1811
bedevil1823
devil1823
victimize1830
frab1848
mither1848
to pester the life out of1848
haik1855
beplague1870
chevy1872
obsede1876
to get on ——1880
to load up with1880
tail-twist1898
hassle1901
heckle1920
snooter1923
hassle1945
to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946
to bust (a person's) chops1953
noodge1960
monster1967
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > persecute
seekc825
baitc1175
war?c1225
pursuec1300
chase1340
course1466
persecutea1475
suea1500
pickc1550
pursuit1563
prosecute1588
exagitate1602
dragoon1689
harass1788
martyr1851
dragonnade1881
witch-hunt1919
vamp1970
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 141 Doð god to ham ȝef ȝe maȝen þet ow werreð.
c1290 Holy Rood 324 in S. Eng. Leg. 10 Sethþe þare cam An Aumperour þat hiet Adrian, heþene he was and swiþe luþur and werrede [v.r. worrede] ech cristine man.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1587 Vaspasyan..after nero com, Þat betere man was þan he & ne worrede noȝt cristendom.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclix. 235 b Whan the gauntoyse sawe them selfe thus mocked and warred by the gentlemen of Flaunders [etc.].
d. To reduce or beat down by warring.
ΚΠ
1860 F. W. Faber Precious Blood ii. 50 Everywhere on the earth the Precious Blood is warring down this evil in detail.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §4. 498 His pertinacity and severity warred it [sc. resistance] down.
2. intransitive. To make or carry on war; to fight. Now only literary.
a. with const. against, on, †toward, upon, with.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)]
warc1230
to make warc1275
warraya1300
battle1330
hostey?a1400
to make (a) fighta1400
to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1542
warfare1565
operate1781
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > specifically of things
warc1230
repugnc1450
oppugn1584
militate1642
to give against ——1646
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > strive against
to stand with ——OE
warc1230
contrast1489
gainstrive1549
oppugn1591
warsle1606
combat1627
stickle1627
reluctate1668
antagonize1742
to fight up against1768
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > carry on (a contest, fight, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > contend with
warc1230
to gripe with1377
repugnc1384
wrestle1398
stema1400
befight1474
vary1496
to break a lance with1589
mud-wrestle1988
c1230 Hali Meid. 5 Babilones folc..þe deoueles here of helle..weorreð & warpeð eauer toward tis tur for to kasten hit adun.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10075 Arður..bi-læi Colgrim þe weorrede [c1300 Otho. werrede] aȝæin him.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1755 He bigan to worri anon vpe þe king basian.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 4970 He lete þe fals Phylystyens, þe folk of Isrel to werre aȝens.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 4786 He [Cassibolan] swor he scholde on hym [Androcheus] were; & þat he had, he scholde hym reue.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 298 Þis proude worldly prest..prively meynteneþ oure enemyes to weren aȝenst us wiþ oure owene gold.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2493 Four kinges werrid [Vesp. werraud] apon fijf.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1913) II. l. 12153 So whanne this galachim gan to vndirstonde..how his fadir kyng Newtris with Arthour gan werre, To his modyr he wente, [etc.].
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Coat-arm. a v b And the cursed peple of Sem wered ayenys them.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxxv They drewe to them great power, and warred vpon the Landes & Castelles of sir Roger Mortymer.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 772/1 The turke hath warred with Christendome all my dayes.
1565 T. Peend tr. Ovid Pleasant Fable Hermaphroditus & Salmacis C j Helena..For whom the Grecians warred ten yeares space with the Troyans.
1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre i. 42 The Athenians had done vniustly, and ought speedily to be warred on.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 104 Monsieur de Luines continuing still the [French] Kings Favorite, advised him to War against his Subjects of the reform'd Religion in France.
1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii. §82. 472/2 Solyman..War'd upon the Venetians and invaded the Islands of Corfu and Malta.
1726 G. Shelvocke tr. Imperial Comm. in Voy. round World Pref. p. xx Capt. George Shelvocke may make use of this Imperial Commission in warring against the Spaniards.
1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Galloway Fergus,..after having warred unsuccessfully with his sovereign,..retired in the habit of a monk to the abbey of Holyroodhouse.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 75 The fated crew that warred Against the chosen saints.
1879 J. R. Green Readings Eng. Hist. i. 3 Tribe warred with tribe.
in extended use.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 720 Sumwhyle wyth wormeȝ he werrez [MS reads werreȝ], & with wolues als.1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 234 In this wise doe eagles warre with dragons.1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. iii. 129 What make ye here, Warring upon the mountain deer, When Scotland wants her King?
b. simply.
ΚΠ
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7887 & vor roberd was eldore & eir, gret folc he sende al so Fram normandie to worry & is fader biquide vndo.
a1352 L. Minot Poems i. 12 Of Ingland had my hert grete care When Edward founded first to were.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 237 Oon Gylomaurus þe tyraunt, þat hadde i-werred in Irlond and in Bretayne.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxiii. 251 And whan thei werren, thei werren fulle wisely.
c1400 Brut ii. 322 In whiche tyme rayned and werred thilk orpid kniȝt Sere Iohn Hawkwode.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 322 And they were enduced to warre and to fyght.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 253 Wars hath not wasted it, for warrde he hath not, But basely yeelded vpon compromise, That which his noble auncestors atchiued with blowes. View more context for this quotation
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 499 All the time hee warred in Asia, and had the spoile of yt wealthy Country.
a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) ii. 214 Sesostris..warred first under his father.
1764 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto iv He received the agreeable news that the confederate princes, who were warring in Palestine, had paid his ransom.
1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxxv. 20 Here, where the sword united nations drew, Our countrymen were warring on that day.
1887 J. P. Mahaffy Alexander's Empire (1890) xxii. 213 The murder of the young king Seleucus Soter (III.), who was warring in Asia Minor.
c. Of peoples, sovereigns, etc.: To carry on war against each other; to be (mutually) at war.
ΚΠ
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9568 Hii nadde iworred bote a lute þat hii acorded were.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 25 Whan Alfrid & Gunter had werred long in ille, Þorgh þe grace of God, Gunter turned his wille.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 21872 Folk þai salle gaine oþer rise to were [Vesp. werrai] samin in mani wise.
1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick 34 As we are Christians, let us War no more, But fight 'gainst such as will not God adore.
1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. 88 We were told that the natives of Cape La Hoo and Jack-a-Jack had been warring for three years previously.
d. To serve as a soldier.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military service > serve as a soldier [verb (intransitive)]
to bear armsc1325
to take armsa1425
serve1430
war1535
to trail a pikec1550
sold1564
to follow the drum1575
to see and serve1590
soldierize1593
militate1625
soldier1647
be in buff1701
to go (a-)soldiering1756
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Tim. ii. 4 No man that warreth [Gk. στρατευόμενος] tangleth him selfe with wordly busynesses. [Similarly 1611.]
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus 669 Ile follow Mars, and warre another while, And die my shield in dolorous vermeil.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. xxxvii. 248 A righteous man..may rightly warre at his command.
1841 G. P. R. James Brigand xv The young gentleman we speak of has been long warring with the armies in Italy.
3. figurative. Of persons: To contend, fight with immaterial weapons; to carry on a metaphorical warfare. Of things, forces, principles: To be in strong opposition.
a. with const. as in sense 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (intransitive)] > mutually (of things)
war1582
clash1646
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 Þe wraððe of kinges..þe..wurreð uppe chirches, oðer wanieð hire rihtes.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 195 Ȝief [he hadde] werred wið god alse þe deuel him to eggede.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 258 Fleschliche lustes. þe weorreð oa þe saule [= 1 Peter 2:11].
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 366 Homicide..Which werreth ayein charite.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Ordre of Chyualry (1926) vii. 98 Chastyte and strengthe warren and fyghten ageynste lecherye and surmounte hit.
?1530 tr. J. Colet Serm. Conuocacion Paulis ii. sig. Bvij Lette the lawes be rehersed that warreth agaynst the spotte of Symonie.
1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Pet. ii. 11 I beseche you..to refraine your selues from carnal desires which warre against the soule. [Similarly 1611].
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. cv. sig. F2v But was by tempests, windes, and seas debarr'd As if they likewise had against him warr'd.
1611 Bible (King James) Rom. vii. 23 I see another Lawe in my members, warring against the Lawe of my minde. View more context for this quotation
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 443 This writer is so determined to war with common opinion, that, in the eighth paragraph, he tells us, that [etc.].
1780 M. Madan Thelyphthora I. 242 How this learned man's prejudices warred against his judgment [etc.].
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 314 When..on the scathed oak warred the winter-wind.
1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus xxiii Such were the thoughts..that warred against each other in his breast.
1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. VI. 36 It is our duty to war against the flesh as they warred against it.
1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iv. 412 Whoso follows these directions,..however warred on, will never be desolately alone.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 12 William, at this stage of his reign, warred rather against the memory of the dead than against the lives or fortunes of the living.
b. simply.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (intransitive)]
to stop one's way1338
contraryc1380
again-laya1382
traversec1400
to make obstaclec1425
warc1460
thwart1519
oppugn1591
oppose1599
oppone1640
throwa1700
antagonize1707
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]
winc888
fightc900
flitec900
wraxlec1000
wrestlea1200
cockc1225
conteckc1290
strivec1290
struta1300
topc1305
to have, hold, make, take strifec1374
stightlea1375
debatec1386
batea1400
strugglec1412
hurlc1440
ruffle1440
warc1460
warslea1500
pingle?a1513
contend1529
repugn1529
scruggle1530
sturtc1535
tuga1550
broilc1567
threap1572
yoke1581
bustle1585
bandy1594
tilt1595
combat1597
to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597
mutiny1597
militate1598
combatizec1600
scuffle1601
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
wage1608
contesta1618
stickle1625
conflict1628
stickle1647
dispute1656
fence1665
contrast1672
scramble1696
to battle it1715
rug1832
grabble1835
buffet1839
tussle1862
pickeer1892
passage1895
tangle1928
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1990 Litil vailith wisdom..Ther fortune evir werrith, & eke hap & chaunce.
1582 Bible (Rheims) James iv. 1 Your concupiscences which warre in your membris. [Similarly 1611].
1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel i. 19 But vainly thou warrest.
c. To be in mutual opposition. Cf. warring adj.
ΚΠ
1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. i. 12 Antagonist principles are ever warring within us.
4. transitive with cognate object: To carry on, wage (a warfare, etc.). rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > wage (war) [verb (transitive)]
workeOE
war1390
levy1471
wagec1485
lead1508
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 62 For this a man mai finde write, Whan that knyhthode schal be werred, Lust mai noght thanne be preferred.
c1425 Eng. Conq. Ireland iv. 10 Robert..sette the bowmen for to wer [MS. Rawl. were] the fight of the kernels.
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. Prol. Circumcysion was vnto them a comen bagge sygnifienge that they were all sodiars off God to warre his warre.
1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Tim. i. 18 That thou warre in them a good war~fare. [Similarly 1611.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

† warv.2

Etymology: Of obscure origin. Possibly a misprint for roar.
Obsolete. rare.
(See quot.) Hence war-back n. a trough used in salting herrings. Cf. rower-back n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > container for curing meat or fish
kimnel1335
gimletc1391
powdering tub1530
salting-tub1556
powdering trough1595
war-back1682
potting-pot1737
salting-pan1816
salting-press1831
salting-trough1842
kench1874
1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 106 The manner of Salting. The Nets are haled on Board, and the Herrings are taken out of them, and put into the Warbacks, which stand on the side of the Vessel and resemble Chests.
1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 107 It is common to allow 2 barrels of Salt in a Last, of 14 barrels to War withall, that is to rowle the Herrings in the Salt before they are Packt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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