cold war

1. 1.

   a state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare

   Antonymshot war

   Broaderhostility
2. 2.

   a state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States

   Broaderhostility

Questions about cold war

What does cold war mean?

cold war means "a state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is the opposite of cold war?

The recorded antonyms are hot war.

Is cold war a common word?

cold war is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.