world-war
adj1
Pertaining to a period of time immediately during a world war
world war
nounalso spelled world-war1
A war involving the major nations of the world.
- Their lips met in one long silent kiss, and a moment later he had gone to strike the first blow in the coming world-war, and to bring the beginning of sorrows on the Tyrant of the North.1894, George Griffith, The Angel of the Revolution, page 69:
- […] Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 9, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:
1 more example
- In the next world war / A jackknifed juggernaut1997, “Airbag”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:
- Derived terms
- World War I, World War II, World War III, World War IV
- Related terms
- Cold War, War on Terrorism