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Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: war

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Latest revision as of 03:12, 17 April 2013

Contents

[edit] English

Wikipedia has articles on:

Wikipedia

[edit] Alternative forms

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre "armed conflict" from Old Northern French werre (compare Old French guerre, guerre, whence modern French guerre), from Frankish *werra ("riot, disturbance, quarrel") from Proto-Germanic *werrō ("mixture, mix-up, confusion"), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- ("to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh"). Akin to Old High German werra ("confusion, strife, quarrel") (German verwirren ("to confuse")), Old Saxon werran ("to confuse, perplex"), Dutch war ("confusion, disarray"), Old English wyrsa, wiersa ("worse"), Old Norse verri ("worse") (originally "confounded, mixed up"). Compare Latin versus ("against, turned"), past participle of vertere ("turn, change, overthrow, destroy"). More at worse, wurst.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia has articles on:

Wikipedia Wikipedia war (countable and uncountable; plural wars)

  1. (uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
    • 1917, Henry Ford, My Life and Work, Chapter 17:
      Nobody can deny that war is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.
    • 2007, Carlos Ramirez-Faria, Concise Encyclopaedia of World History:
      Germany declared war on France, who reciprocated, on August 3 [1939], and England declared war on Germany on August 4, when Belgium was already under invasion.
  2. (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
    • 1865, Herman Melville, "The Surrender at Appomattox":
      All human tribes glad token see
      In the close of the wars of Grant and Lee.
    • 1999, Bill Clinton at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C, November 8 1999:
      A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.
  3. (countable) By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
    You look like you've been through the wars.
    1. (figuratively) A campaign against something.
      The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.
      The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.
      In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas".
    2. (business, countable) A bout of fierce competition in trade.
      I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war, getting my car for far less than it's worth.
      The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war, each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.
  4. (uncountable) A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.

[edit] Antonyms

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[edit] Translations

conflict involving organized use of arms

rhetorical: campaign against something

card game

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[edit] Verb

war (third-person singular simple present wars, present participle warring, simple past and past participle warred)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
    • circa 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry V, act 3, sc. 1:
      Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more . . .
      Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
      And teach them how to war.
    • 1882, George Bernard Shaw, Cashel Byron's Profession, ch. 14:
      This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . . , produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.
    To war the Scot, and borders to defend. — Daniel.
  2. To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
    That thou […] mightest war a good warfare. — Tim. i. 18.

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war

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

[edit] Noun

war

  1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

[edit] Breton

[edit] Preposition

war

  1. on, over, ...
    war ar sizhun – during the week

[edit] Etymology

From Middle Dutch werre, warre ("confusion, disarray, conflict"), from Old Dutch *werra, from Proto-Germanic *werrō. Cognate with English war, which was loaned via Frankish and Old Northern French.

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[edit] Noun

war f (plural warren, diminutive warretje)

  1. confusion, disarray
  2. tangle, mess
  3. a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish (e.g. by tangling them up in nets)

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Elfdalian

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.

[edit] Adverb

war

  1. where, in what place

[edit] German

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war

  1. First-person singular preterite of sein.
    • 1788, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont
      Ich hätte ihn heiraten können, und glaube, ich war nie in ihn verliebt.
      I could have married him; yet I believe I was never really in love with him.
  2. Third-person singular preterite of sein.
    • 1788, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont
      Gott tröst' ihn! Das war ein Herr!
      God bless him! He was a king indeed!

[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Noun

war ?

  1. place

[edit] Low German

[edit] Alternative forms

[edit] Etymology

Cognate to German wahr.

[edit] Adjective

war

  1. (in some dialects) true

[edit] Luxembourgish

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war

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of sinn
  2. third-person singular preterite indicative of sinn

[edit] Old High German

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wār

  1. true

[edit] Old Saxon

[edit] Adjective

wār

  1. true

[edit] Declension

Declension of wār

Strong declension
masculine neuter feminine
singular plural singular plural singular plural
nominative wār wāre wār wāre wār wāru
accusative wāran wāre wār wāre wāra wāru
genitive wāres wārarō wāres wārarō wāraro wārarō
dative wārumu wārum wārumu wārum wāraro wārum
Weak declension
masculine neuter feminine
singular plural singular plural singular plural
nominative wāro wāru wāra wāru wāra wāru
accusative wārun wārun wāra wārun wārun wārun
genitive wārun wāronō wārun wāronō wārun wāronō
dative wārun wārum wārun wārum wārun wārum

[edit] Tocharian B

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *wär, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ ("water") through a regular (endocentric) thematicization *udrom. Compare Tocharian A wär.

[edit] Noun

war

  1. water

[edit] See also
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