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say it: wawr
war is a noun and verb meaning "the waging of armed conflict against an enemy". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
“thousands of people were killed in the war”
military
a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
“war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring”
war
an active struggle between competing entities
“a price war”
“a war of wits”
“diplomatic warfare”
a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
“the war on poverty”
“the war against crime”
make or wage war
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for war come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.