Seven Years' War

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noun

the war (1756–63) in which England and Prussia defeated France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony.

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How to use Seven Years' War in a sentence

They are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs).
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Groups like CAIR and leading intellectuals and imams have been denouncing acts like these for years.
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But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
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Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
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That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
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He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
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His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.
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The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
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It seems very strange that I shall actually know Liszt at last, after hearing of him so many years.
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Was he really condemned to an eternal solitude because of the girl who had died so many years ago?
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British Dictionary definitions for Seven Years' War

Seven Years' War

noun

the war (1756–63) of Britain and Prussia, who emerged in the ascendant, against France and Austria, resulting from commercial and colonial rivalry between Britain and France and from the conflict in Germany between Prussia and Austria

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Cultural definitions for Seven Years' War

Seven Years' War

A war fought in the middle of the eighteenth century between the German kingdom of Prussia, supported by Britain, and an alliance that included Austria, France, and Russia. Prussia and Britain won, and their victory greatly increased their power. Britain, in particular, won all of Canada and consolidated its rule over much of India. Several of the war's battles were fought in North America, where it was called the French and Indian War.