civil war
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A war fought between factions of the inhabitants of a single country, or a similar political entity.
name
Example Sentences
- "Our Father’s Death Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War, And cloſe the Scene of Blood."
- "At about the time the salarians and asari were forming the Council, the turians were embroiled in a bitter civil war. The Unification War, as it was later named, began with hostilities between the colonies furthest from the turian homeworld, Palaven."
- "The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶"
- "Civil war is now casually discussed on cable TV shows in between ads for haemorrhoid creams and car insurance."
- "Puritans had always been only a minority, albeit one with disproportionate influence. The Civil War of the 1640s, which culminated in the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the establishment of a republic, gave them supreme power."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
civil wars (plural)
the Civil War (canonical)