civil war

1. 1.

   a war between factions in the same country

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Questions about civil war

What does civil war mean?

civil war means "a war between factions in the same country".

Is civil war a common word?

civil war is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.