Nouns

• Spanish War — Noun – English ～ a war between the United States and Spain in 1898
• Spanish-American War — Noun – English ～ a war between the United States and Spain in 1898
• Spanish Civil War — Noun – English ～ civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government; during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries; 1936-1939
• theatre of war — Noun – English ～ the entire land, sea, and air area that may become or is directly involved in war operations
• theater of war — Noun – English ～ the entire land, sea, and air area that may become or is directly involved in war operations
• United States Civil War — Noun – English ～ civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865
• tug-of-war — Noun – English ～ a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses
• tug-of-war — Noun – English ～ any hard struggle between equally matched groups
• Trojan War — Noun – English ～ (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground; "the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad"
• turf war — Noun – English ～ a bitter struggle for territory or power or control or rights; "a turf war erupted between street gangs"; "the president's resignation was the result of a turf war with the board of directors"
• war machine — Noun – English ～ the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
• war party — Noun – English ～ a band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans)
• War of the Grand Alliance — Noun – English ～ an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)
• war power — Noun – English ～ an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime
• war cloud — Noun – English ～ an ominous sign that war threatens
• war of nerves — Noun – English ～ the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale
• War of the Roses — Noun – English ～ struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII
• war vessel — Noun – English ～ a government ship that is available for waging war
• War of American Independence — Noun – English ～ the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783
• War of the Austrian Succession — Noun – English ～ Prussia and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides; 1740-1748

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