| 单词 | peninsular war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPeninsular war 2. spec. (usually with capital initial). Of or belonging to the Iberian peninsula, comprising Spain and Portugal; spec. (frequently in Peninsular war) of, relating to, or designating the war waged there from 1808 to 1814 between Napoleonic France and the combined forces of Britain, Spain, and Portugal (now historical). ΘΚΠ 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 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Iberian peninsula and islands > [adjective] > Iberian peninsula peninsular1811 1811 Reformists' Reg. 1 Jan. 247/1 The impolicy of the Peninsular war. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) iv. 36 The name of Montague Tigg will perhaps be familiar to you, in connexion with the most remarkable events of the Peninsular War? a1863 W. M. Thackeray Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii He is an old Peninsular man. 1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 52 The maiden I wronged in Peninsular days. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 777/1 The evidence does not enable us to say..whether the first Peninsular adapter or translator was a Castilian or a Portuguese. 1986 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 31 149 In Peninsular and Canary Island dialects, velarization of word-final prevocalic /n/ is rare. 2003 Times (Nexis) 9 Dec. (Times2 section) 22 The last of Bernard Cornwell's excellent series about the Peninsular War starts with the Duke of Wellington in terrible spirits. < as lemmas |
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