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How to pronounce “war”
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Pronunciation guide for war
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of war with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Civil Wars & A History in Ideas
during the Iraq War after the US-led invasion.
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
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How to pronounce war
Civil Wars & A History in Ideas
during the Iraq War after the US-led invasion.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “war”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
- (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
- (countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
- (countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly
- (obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
- (obsolete) Armed forces.
- (uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
- (transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
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