What is the definition of war?

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who give that definition

Answer 1

http://www.iep.utm.edu/w/war.htm

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and straight out the dictionary:

1. a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.  

2. a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations: The two nations were at war with each other.  

3. a contest carried on by force of arms, as in a series of battles or campaigns: the War of 1812.  

4. active hostility or contention; conflict; contest: a war of words.  

5. aggressive business conflict, as through severe price cutting in the same industry or any other means of undermining competitors: a fare war among airlines; a trade war between nations.  

6. a struggle: a war for men's minds; a war against poverty.  

7. armed fighting, as a science, profession, activity, or art; methods or principles of waging armed conflict: War is the soldier's business.  

8. Cards. a. a game for two or more persons, played with a 52-card pack evenly divided between the players, in which each player turns up one card at a time with the higher card taking the lower, and in which, when both turned up cards match, each player lays one card face down and turns up another, the player with the higher card of the second turn taking all the cards laid down.  

b. an occasion in this game when both turned up cards match.  



9. Archaic. a battle.  

–verb (used without object) 10. to make or carry on war; fight: to war with a neighboring nation.  

11. to carry on active hostility or contention: Throughout her life she warred with sin and corruption.  

12. to be in conflict or in a state of strong opposition: The temptation warred with his conscience.  

–adjective 13. of, belonging to, used in, or due to war: war preparations; war hysteria.  

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[Origin: bef. 1150; (n.) ME, late OE werre < ONF < Gmc; c. OHG werra strife; (v.) ME, late OE werrien (transit.) to make war upon, deriv. of the n.; cf. OF guerrer, ONF werreier; akin to war2]

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Answer 2

    Word History: The chaos of war is reflected in the semantic history of the word war. War can be traced back to the Indo-European root *wers-, "to confuse, mix up." In the Germanic family of the Indo-European languages, this root gave rise to several words having to do with confusion or mixture of various kinds. One was the noun *werza-, "confusion," which in a later form *werra- was borrowed into Old French, probably from Frankish, a largely unrecorded Germanic language that contributed about 200 words to the vocabulary of Old French. From the Germanic stem came both the form werre in Old North French, the form borrowed into English in the 12th century, and guerre (the source of guerrilla) in the rest of the Old French-speaking area. Both forms meant "war." Meanwhile another form derived from the same Indo-European root had developed into a word denoting a more benign kind of mixture, Old High German wurst, meaning "sausage." Modern German Wurst was borrowed into English in the 19th century, first by itself (recorded in 1855) and then as part of the word liverwurst (1869), the liver being a translation of German Leber in Leberwurst.

Answer 3

armed hostilities between nations.conflict.by frankishhwirbilon