world war

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [wurld wawr]
- /wɜrld wɔr/
- /wɜːld wɔː(r)/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [wurld wawr]
- /wɜrld wɔr/

Definitions of world war words

noun world war a war that involves most of the principal nations of the world. 1
noun world war large-scale international conflict 1
variable noun world war A world war is a war that involves countries all over the world. 0

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Origin of world war

First appearance:

before 1910

One of the 15% newest English words

First recorded in 1910-15

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Parts of speech for World war

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of World war

world war popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 44% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

world war usage trend in Literature

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