English Dictionary

war

IPA（発音記号）

/wɔː/

名詞

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(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.

日本語の意味

戦争：国家間や民族・その他大規模なグループ間で、組織的かつ大規模に行われる武力紛争や衝突

After decades of diplomatic efforts, the region finally recovered from the devastation of war.

何十年にもわたる外交努力の末、その地域はついに戦争の荒廃から回復しました。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.

holy war... just war... civil war...

意味（2）

(countable) A particular conflict of this kind.

All human tribes glad token see In the close of the wars of Grant and Lee.

意味（3）

(countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.

Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.

意味（4）

(chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party... Ask all our millions, north and south, whether they would vote now (were such a thing possible) to have our war for the Union expunged from history... and probably hardly a handful of eccentrics would say yes. Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, ar the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out. Yet ask those same people whether they would be willing, in cold blood, to start another civil war now to gain another similar possession, and not one man or woman would vote for the proposition.

意味（5）

(business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.

price wars... Cola Wars... format wars...

意味（6）

(crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.

turf war... gang war... Castellammarese War...

意味（7）

(Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.

flame war... edit war...

意味（8）

(obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.

The God of Love himſelf inhabits there, With all his rage, and dread, and grief, and care, His complement of ſtores, and total war...

意味（9）

(obsolete) Armed forces.

On thir imbattelld ranks the Waves return, And overwhelm thir Warr

意味（10）

(uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.

We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.

wars （ plural ）