war

Betekenis

Noun

1. Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
2. A particular conflict of this kind.
3. Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
4. Any protracted conflict, particularly
5. Any protracted conflict, particularly
6. Any protracted conflict, particularly
7. Any protracted conflict, particularly
8. (obsolete) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
9. (obsolete) Armed forces.
10. Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.

Verb

1. To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
2. To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/wɔː/

Etimologie

From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.
Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”),
Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.

Sinne

Wait for the end of the war .

After the war , he worked in Kansas and Texas .

It was modernized during the First World War .

The order was administered and awarded the Ministry of Veterans and War Victims .

One quarter of all awards for the First World War were posthumous .

This meant that Sparta was also effectively at war with Persia .

The post-Second World War period was a golden era for Dundee Football Club .

Decades later , political unrest in the kingdoms of Elemen turned into bloody civil war .