war between the states

Questions about war between the states

What does war between the states mean?

war between the states means "civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865".

What is another word for war between the states?

Close synonyms include American Civil War, United States Civil War. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is war between the states a common word?

war between the states 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.