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world war
noun
: a war involving many nations of the world
Full Definition of WORLD WAR
: a war engaged in by all or most of the principal nations of the world; especially capitalized both Ws : either of two such wars of the first half of the 20th century
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First Known Use of WORLD WAR
1909
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