Word Meanings - WAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ware; aware. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WAR)

• Warfare
• War
• hostilities
• antagonism
• campaign
• engagement
• belligerence

Related words: (words related to WAR)

• CAMPAIGNER
  One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
• WARFARER
  One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.
• BELLIGERENCE; BELLIGERENCY
  The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.
• CAMPAIGN
  A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field. Wilhelm. (more info) level country about Naples, fr. campus field. See Camp, and cf. 1. An open field; a large, open plain
• ANTAGONISM
  Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles. Note: We speak of antagonism between two things, to or against a thing, and sometimes with a thing.
• WARFARE
  1. Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. I Sam. xxviii. 1. This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare.
• ENGAGEMENT
  An action; a fight; a battle. In hot engagement with the Moors. Dryden. (more info) 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• PREENGAGEMENT
  Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.
• DISENGAGEMENT
  1. The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones. 2. Freedom