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World war   /wərld wɔr/   Listen
World war

noun
1.
A war in which the major nations of the world are involved.



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World War 1
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World War I
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First World War
Second World War


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"World war" Quotes from Famous Books



... hard work. His verses came to the attention of one of the Harvard professors. He has since published a volume, From the Heart of a Folk. He served with the 367th Regiment, "The Buffaloes," during the World War and saw active service in France. At present he is employed as a ...
— The Book of American Negro Poetry • Edited by James Weldon Johnson
... awful cataclysm of World War, where from beating, slandering, and murdering us the white world turned temporarily aside to kill each other, we of the Darker Peoples looked on ...
— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois
... in, there is something more than the mere termination of a strain and the vindication of international righteousness to consider. There is the possibility, and not only the possibility but the possible need, that Holland should come out of this world war aggrandized. I want to lay stress upon that, because it may prove a decisive ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... terrorism will not occur as a single, defining moment. It will not be marked by the likes of the surrender ceremony on the deck of the USS Missouri that ended World War II. However, through the sustained effort to compress the scope and capability of terrorist organizations, isolate them regionally, and destroy them within state borders, the United States and its friends ...
— National Strategy for Combating Terrorism - February 2003 • United States
... and self-dependence is not confined to any race of people, but in nations where personal liberty survives initiative is at its best. Somehow, whenever the emergency, the man comes forth to do and dare. The great world war, still raging as these lines are penned, has furnished untold thousands of examples of courageous action—-enough to last until the end of human affairs, but they will go on and on in multiplied form, each day's score ...
— Laugh and Live • Douglas Fairbanks


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