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opium wars

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English

Syllables
opi-um wars
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

plural of Opium War

name

Collectively, the First Opium War and Second Opium War, two Anglo-Chinese wars of the 1800s, over the drug-dealing of the British into China.

Inflected Forms

the Opium Wars (canonical, plural)

Phrases

First Opium War Opium War Second Opium War

Frequently Paired Words

First Opium War opium Opium War Second Opium War war

Synonyms

Chinese Opium Wars First and Second Opium War First and Second Opium Wars

Questions

What does opium wars mean?
plural of Opium War

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