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world warˌworld ˈwar noun [countable] - At the beginning of the first world war he applied unsuccessfully to rejoin the army.
- He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war.
- Never since the first world war have we had homeless teenage children begging in the streets.
- That is almost twice as many as died in the first world war.
- The whispering against Bradman increased during the second world war.
- We see newsreel footage of cavalry, blazing buildings, war planes - from revolutions, civil war, world war.
a war involving many of the countries of the world: fears of another world war Churchill was prime minister during the Second World War. the years after World War I |