Usually means: Armed conflict between organized groups.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. war: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. war: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. war: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. War, war: Collins English Dictionary
  5. war: Vocabulary.com
  6. War, w'ar, war, war: Wordnik
  7. war: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. WAR, War, war, war-: Wiktionary
  9. war: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. war: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. war: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. War, war, war: Dictionary.com
  13. war: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. war: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. War: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. war: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. war: Rhymezone
  19. war: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. war: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. war: Free Dictionary
  22. war: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. War, war: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. war: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. War: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. war: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. War: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. WAR: Acronym Finder
  4. WAR: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. war: Idioms
  7. war: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. War: Easton Bible
  2. War: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. War: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. war, war: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. W.A.R, W.A.R: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. War: Card Games

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
noun:  (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
noun:  (countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
noun:  (countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly
noun:  (chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.
noun:  (business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
noun:  (crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
noun:  (Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
noun:  (obsolete) Armed forces.
noun:  (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).
verb:  (transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
noun:  Preceded by the: designating a particularly notable war.
noun:  (obsolete) World War I.
noun:  (chiefly British, informal) World War II.
noun:  The personification of war, often depicted in armour and riding a red horse; the red rider.
noun:  A city in West Virginia, United States.
noun:  Initialism of White Aryan Resistance.
noun:  (computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Web application archive (a Java archive file).
noun:  (military, historical) Initialism of Winchester Automatic Rifle.
noun:  Initialism of Women Against Registry.
noun:  (computing) Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.
noun:  (sports) Acronym of wins above replacement.

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