world war
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.32 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A war involving the major nations of the world.
Example Sentences
- "Their lips met in one long silent kiss, and a moment later he had gone to strike the first blow in the coming world-war, and to bring the beginning of sorrows on the Tyrant of the North."
- "[…] Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated."
- "In the next world war / A jackknifed juggernaut"
- "As late as the eve of the World War, two-thirds of the farm land belonged to only a quarter of a million proprietors: princes and barons and well-to-do townsmen."
- "The deep antagonism generated by the World War, however, represented a dramatic reversal for Germany’s emerging interest in cultural diplomacy, as both the Entente and the Central Powers aggressively discredited the political aims and the cultural achievements of their opponents."