world war
Americannoun
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world wars
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of world war
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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Seventeen years, a depression and world war later, Canada joined with the U.S. to create the postwar trading system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The second world war saw the loss of dinosaur fossils on both sides of the conflict.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
DST, which also helped conserve fuel during the first world war, was unpopular with farmers and was repealed after the war.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Eliot theorized in his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men,” a bleak assessment of life after the first world war.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
They knew there was a world war going on: It meant that they were cold and hungry, separated from family and home—some of them even from their own children.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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