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Pronunciation [ edit ] enPR : wûrld wôr to͞o , IPA (key ) : /wɜː(ɹ)ld wɔː(ɹ) tuː/
( UK ) [wɜːɫd wɔː tuː] ( US ) [wɝɫd wɔɚ̯ tu] Proper noun [ edit ] World War II
( history ) Allied forces , including the United Kingdom , the Soviet Union , the United States , France , and China , against the Axis Powers , including Germany , Italy , and Japan .
1939 November 10, “Following The War”, in The Chart [1] Joplin , Missouri: Joplin Junior College , page 4 , column 1:As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War II . The average U. S. citizen's knowledge of World War II will probably decide his role in it.
1941 Command and General Staff School Military Review [2] 80 , →OCLC page 23 , column 1:Nothing since the beginning of World War II , a year ago last September, has boosted British morale or given them greater courage to fight on as has this brilliant Libyan campaign.
2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism [3] Cambridge University Press , →ISBN 182 :If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:World War II . Usage notes [ edit ] World War II is the most common among the synonyms.Synonyms [ edit ] Hyponyms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] war from 1939 to 1945
Afrikaans: Tweede Wêreldoorlog
Albanian: Lufta e Dytë Botërore
Arabic: اَلْحَرْبُ اَلْعَالَمِيَّةُ اَلثَّانِيَة f ( al-ḥarbu l-ʕālamiyyatu ṯ-ṯāniya )
Armenian: երկրորդ համաշխարհային պատերազմ ( erkrord hamašxarhayin paterazm )
Azerbaijani: İkinci Dünya Müharibəsi
Belarusian: Друга́я сусве́тная вайна́ f ( Druhája susvjétnaja vajná )
Bulgarian: вто́ра световна война f ( vtóra svetovna vojna )
Burmese: ဒုတိယကမ္ဘာစစ် ( du.ti.ya.kambhacac )
Catalan: Segona Guerra Mundial f
Cebuano: Ikaduhang Gubat Kalibotanon
Chinese:
Mandarin: 第二次世界大戰 ／ 第二次世界大战 (zh) ( dì'èrcì shìjiè dàzhàn )
Crimean Tatar: Ekinci Cian cenki
Czech: druhá světová válka f
Danish: anden verdenskrig c 2. verdenskrig c
Dutch: Tweede Wereldoorlog (nl) m
Esperanto: Dua Mondmilito
Estonian: Teine maailmasõda
Finnish: toinen maailmansota (fi)
French: Seconde Guerre mondiale (fr) f Deuxième Guerre mondiale (fr)
Galician: Segunda Guerra Mundial
Georgian: მეორე მსოფლიო ომი ( meore msoplio omi )
German: Zweiter Weltkrieg (de) m
Greek: Β΄ Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος (el) m
Hebrew: מלחמת העולם השנייה
Hindi: द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध m ( dvitīya viśva yuddh ) , द्वितीय महायुद्ध m ( dvitīya mahāyuddh )
Hungarian: második világháború (hu)
Icelandic: seinni heimsstyrjöldin síðari heimsstyrjöldin heimsstyrjöldin síðari
Ilocano: Maikadua a Sangalubongan a Gubat
Indonesian: Perang Dunia Kedua (id)
Interlingua: Secunde Guerra Mundial c
Irish: Dara Cogadh Domhanda m
Italian: Seconda guerra mondiale f
Japanese: 第二次世界大戦 (ja) ( dainiji sekai taisen )
Kannada: ಎರಡನೇ ಮಹಾಯುದ್ಧ ( eraḍanē mahāyuddha )
Kazakh: Екінші дүниежүзілік соғыс ( Ekınşı düniejüzılık soğys )
Khmer: សង្គ្រាមលោកលើកទី២ ( sɑngkriəm look ləək tii pii )
Korean: 제이차 세계 대전(第二次世界大戰) 제2차 세계 대전(第2次世界大戰) ( jeicha segye daejeon )
Kyrgyz: Экинчи дүйнөлүк согуш ( Ekinci düynölük soguş )
Latin: secundum bellum mundiale n secundum bellum mundanum n
Latvian: Otrais pasaules karš
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: Zweete Weltkrich (lb) m
Macedonian: Втора светска војна f ( Vtora svetska vojna ) , II светска војна f ( II svetska vojna )
Malay: Perang Dunia Kedua (ms)
Maltese: It-Tieni Gwerra Dinjija
Maori: Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao
Marathi: दुसरे विश्व युद्ध n ( dusre viśva yuddha )
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Navajo: naaki góneʼ yéigo daʼahijoogą́ą́ʼ
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norman: Deuxième Dgèrre Mondiale f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: andre verdenskrig (no) m
Nynorsk: andre verdskrigen m
Occitan: Dusava Guèrra Mondiala f Dusau Guèrra Mondiau f Segonda Guèrra Mondiala f Segonda Guèrra Mondiau f
Persian: جنگ جهانی دوم ( jang-e jahâni-ye dovvom )
Polish: druga wojna światowa (pl) f II wojna światowa (pl) f
Portuguese: Segunda Guerra Mundial f
Romanian: Al Doilea Război Mondial m
Russian: Втора́я мирова́я война́ (ru) f ( Vtorája mirovája vojná )
Scottish Gaelic: Dara Cogadh Mòr m
Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: Segunda Guerra Mundial f
Swahili: Vita Kuu ya Pili ya Dunia
Swedish: andra världskriget (sv) n
Tagalog: Ikalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig (tl)
Telugu: రెండవ ప్రపంచ యుద్ధము ( reṇḍava prapañca yuddhamu )
Thai: สงครามโลกครั้งที่สอง ( sǒng-kraam-lôok-kráng-tîi-sɔ̌ɔng )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: İkinci Dünya Savaşı (tr) , 2. Dünya Savaşı (tr)
Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: Дру́га світова́ війна́ f ( Drúha svitová vijná )
Urdu: دوسری عالمی جنگ f ( dūsrī 'ālami jaṅg )
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: Иккинчи Жаҳон Уруши ( Ikkinchi Jahon Urushi )
Latin: Ikkinchi Jahon Urushi
Vietnamese: Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai Đệ nhị thế chiến
Volapük: volakrig telid
Welsh: Yr Ail Ryfel Byd
West Frisian: Twadde Wrâldkriich
Yiddish: צווייטע וועלט מלחמה ( tsveyte velt milkhome )
Further reading [ edit ] “World War II ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
“World War II ”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster , 1996–present.
“World War II ”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2016, →ISBN
“World War II ”, in Collins English Dictionary
“World War II ” (US) / “World War II ” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary
World War II, Second World War, World War 2, WW2, WWII at Google Ngram Viewer
