seven years' war

1. 1.

   a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (1756-1763); Britain and Prussia got the better of it

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What does seven years' war mean?

seven years' war means "a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (1756-1763); Britain and Prussia got the better of it".

Is seven years' war a common word?

seven years' 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.