English
Alternative forms
Noun
world war (plural world wars)
- A war involving the major nations of the world.
- 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, ix:
- Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated.
Related terms
Translations
a war involving the major nations of the world
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- Manx: caggey dowanagh m
- Nogai: дуныя согысы (dunıya sogısı)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: verdenskrig (no) m
- Nynorsk: verdskrig m
- Pijin: wol wo
- Polish: wojna światowa f
- Portuguese: guerra mundial m
- Romanian: război mondial n
- Russian: мирова́я война́ (ru) f (mirovája vojná)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: светски рат m, свјетски рат m
- Roman: svetski rat m, svjetski rat m
- Slovak: svetová vojna f
- Slovene: svetovna vojna f
- Spanish: guerra mundial f
- Swedish: världskrig (sv) n
- Tagalog: digmaang pandaigdig
- Ukrainian: світова війна f (svitová vijná)
- Vietnamese: chiến tranh thế giới
- Volapük: volakrig, volaklig (obsolete spelling)
- West Frisian: wrâldkriich, wrâldoarloch
- Yiddish: וועלט־מלחמה f (velt-milkhome)
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