peloponnesian war

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   a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC

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Questions about peloponnesian war

What does peloponnesian war mean?

peloponnesian war means "a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC".

Is peloponnesian war a common word?

peloponnesian war is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.