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total war

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English

Syllables
to-tal war
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Calque of German totaler Krieg, coined by Erich Ludendorff.

Usage

Inflected Forms

total wars (plural)

Questions

What does total war mean?
Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed.
Where does total war come from?
Calque of German totaler Krieg, coined by Erich Ludendorff.

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