war

Definition

Examples

The museum has an exhibit about daily life during the war.

Word Family

Synonyms

• warfarethe waging of armed conflict against an enemy
• conflictan open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); --Thomas Paine
• combatan engagement fought between two military forces

Collocations

• Easy war hero
  to war hero, meaning to make or wage war
• Medium price war between rival airlines
  to price war between rival airlines, meaning to determine the price of
• Hard wage economic war through unilateral tariffs
  to wage economic war through unilateral tariffs, meaning to carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
• Very Hard all is fair in love and war
  describing all is fair in love and war (quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class)