war
(noun) a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; “the war on poverty”; “the war against crime”
war, warfare
(noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; “thousands of people were killed in the war”
war, warfare
(noun) an active struggle between competing entities; “a price war”; “a war of wits”; “diplomatic warfare”
war, state of war
(noun) a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; “war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring”
war
(verb) make or wage war
Source: WordNet® 3.1
war (countable and uncountable, plural wars)
(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
(countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
(countable, by extension) Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
(figuratively) A campaign against something.
(business, countable) A bout of fierce competition in trade.
(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of war.
(obsolete) Armed forces.
(uncountable) A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.
• peace
• civil war
• cold war
• conventional war
• dynastic war
• edit war
• flame war
• gas war
• holy war
• hot war
• Hundred Years' War
• Korean War
• nuclear war
• perpetual war
• pissing war
• price war
• propaganda war
• proxy war
• revert war
• Thirty Years' War
• thumb war
• total war
• trade war
• turf war
• undeclared war
• Vietnam War
• world war
• World War One
• World War Two
• tribal war
war (third-person singular simple present wars, present participle warring, simple past and past participle warred)
(intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
• RAW, RWA, Rwa, WRA, raw
WAR
Initialism of White Aryan Resistance.
(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Web application archive (a Java archive file)
WAR (uncountable)
(computing) Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.
(sports) Acronym of wins above replacement.
• RAW, RWA, Rwa, WRA, raw
War
The personification of war, often depicted in armor and riding a red horse.
A city in West Virginia, United States.
The War frequently refers to the Second World War (World War II/WW2/WWII) in informal contexts in Britain, and less commonly so in the United States and Canada.
• (personification of war): the red rider
• RAW, RWA, Rwa, WRA, raw
Source: Wiktionary
War, a.
Definition: Ware; aware. [Obs.] Chaucer.
War, n. Etym: [OE. & AS. werre; akin to OHG. werra scandal, quarrel, sedition, werran to confound, mix, D. warren, G. wirren, verwirren, to embroil, confound, disturb, and perhaps to E. worse; cf. OF. werre war, F. querre, of Teutonic origin. Cf. Guerrilla, Warrior.]
1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities. Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed. F. W. Robertson.
Note: As war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. A war begun by attacking another nation, is called an offensive war, and such attack is aggressive. War undertaken to repel invasion, or the attacks of an enemy, is called defensive.
2. (Law)
Definition: A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
3. Instruments of war. [Poetic] His complement of stores, and total war. Prior.
4. Forces; army. [Poetic] On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war. Milton.
5. The profession of arms; the art of war. Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth. 1 Sam. xvii. 33.
6. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. "Raised impious war in heaven." Milton. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. Ps. lv. 21. Civil war, a war between different sections or parties of the same country or nation.
– Holy war. See under Holy.
– Man of war. (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
– Public war, a war between independent sovereign states.
– War cry, a cry or signal used in war; as, the Indian war cry.
– War dance, a dance among savages preliminary to going to war. Among the North American Indians, it is begun by some distinguished chief, and whoever joins in it thereby enlists as one of the party engaged in a warlike excursion. Schoolcraft.
– War field, a field of war or battle.
– War horse, a horse used in war; the horse of a cavalry soldier; especially, a strong, powerful, spirited horse for military service; a charger.
– War paint, paint put on the face and other parts of the body by savages, as a token of going to war. "Wash the war paint from your faces." Longfellow.
– War song, a song of or pertaining to war; especially, among the American Indians, a song at the war dance, full of incitements to military ardor.
– War whoop, a war cry, especially that uttered by the American Indians.
War, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Warred; p. pr. & vb. n. Warring.] 1
Definition: To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence. Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it. Isa. vii. 1. Why should I war without the walls of Troy Shak. Our countrymen were warring on that day! Byron.
2. To contend; to strive violently; to fight. "Lusts which war against the soul." 1 Pet. ii. 11.
War, v. t.
1. To make war upon; to fight. [R.] To war the Scot, and borders to defend. Daniel.
2. To carry on, as a contest; to wage. [R.] That thou . . . mightest war a good warfare. Tim. i. 18.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 March 2025
(verb) hold one’s ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright; “I am standing my ground and won’t give in!”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
