First World War

noun

1. World War I.

First World War

noun

1. another name for World War I

Example Sentences

"It was a bit like the First World War when they played football on Christmas Day."

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We met in groups of two or three at Oxford, with a professor who started with a question—“Was the First World War inevitable?”

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The British and French had tried to fix borders before, he said, when they took the Middle East from the dying Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

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Constance said the site's history dated back to the end of the First World War.

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It's the same distance as between his father Prince William's birth and the outbreak of the First World War.

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