world warnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌwɜːld ˈwɔːr/us/ˌwɝːld ˈwɔːr/a war in which large forces from many countries fight
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
War
- antebellum
- battle-scarred
- bellicose
- belligerent
- biological warfare
- concord
- crusade
- hostile
- militarism
- militarist
- pacific
- peacekeeping
- phoney war
- pro-war
- scorched-earth policy
- the Great War
- the Second World War
- war clouds are gathering idiom
- war-torn
- warfare
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Examples from literature
- For example, 75 percent of Portuguese people said they were scared of world war, while only 28 percent of Finnish people felt the same.