world war

See also: world-war

English

Alternative forms

• world-war

Etymology

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Noun

world war (plural world wars)

1. A war involving the major nations of the world.
   • 1894, George Griffith, The Angel of the Revolution, page 69:

     Their lips met in one long silent kiss, and a moment later he had gone to strike the first blow in the coming world-war, and to bring the beginning of sorrows on the Tyrant of the North.

   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 9, in Crome Yellow‎^[1], London: Chatto & Windus:

     […] Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated.

Derived terms

• World War Zero
• World War I
• World War II
• World War III
• World War IV

Translations

a war involving the major nations of the world

• Albanian: luftë botërore f
• Arabic: الْحَرْب الْعَالَمِيَّة f (al-ḥarb al-ʕālamiyya)
• Armenian: համաշխարհային պատերազմ (hamašxarhayin paterazm)
• Azerbaijani: dünya müharibəsi
• Bavarian: Wödkriag
• Belarusian: сусве́тная вайна́ f (susvjétnaja vajná)
• Bulgarian: свето́вна война́ f (svetóvna vojná)
• Burmese: ကမ္ဘာစစ် (my) (kambhacac)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 世界大戰／世界大战 (zh) (shìjiè dàzhàn)

• Chuvash: тӗнче вӑрҫи (tĕnč̬e vărś̬i)
• Crimean Tatar: cian cenki
• Czech: světová válka f
• Danish: verdenskrig c
• Dutch: wereldoorlog (nl) m, wereldbrand (nl) m, wereldkrijg m
• Esperanto: mondmilito (eo)
• Estonian: ilmasõda, maailmasõda
• Finnish: maailmansota (fi)
• French: guerre mondiale (fr) f
• Galician: guerra mundial f
• Georgian: მსოფლიო ომი (msoplio omi)
• German: Weltkrieg (de) m
• Greek: παγκόσμιος πόλεμος m (pagkósmios pólemos)
• Hebrew: מלחמת העולם \ מִלְחֶמֶת עוֹלָם (he) f (milkhemet 'olam)
• Hindi: विश्वयुद्ध (hi) m (viśvayuddh), महासमर (hi) m (mahāsmar), महायुद्ध (hi) m (mahāyuddh), महाबेधक (hi) m (mahābedhak)
• Hungarian: világháború (hu)
• Hunsrik: Weltkriegh m
• Icelandic: heimsstyrjöld f, veraldarstríð n
• Japanese: 世界大戦 (ja) (せかいたいせん, sekai taisen)
• Khmer: សង្គ្រាមលោក (sɑngkriəm look)
• Korean: 세계 대전(世界大戰) (segye daejeon)
• Latin: bellum mundānum n
• Latvian: pasaules karš m
• Lithuanian: pasaulinis karas m
• Luxembourgish: Weltkrich m
• Macedonian: светска војна f (svetska vojna)
• Manx: caggey dowanagh m
• Nogai: дуныя согысы (dunıya sogısı)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: verdenskrig (no) m

  Nynorsk: verdskrig m

• Pijin: wol wo
• Polish: wojna światowa f
• Portuguese: guerra mundial m
• Romanian: război mondial n
• Russian: мирова́я война́ (ru) f (mirovája vojná)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: светски рат m, свјетски рат m

  Roman: svetski rat m, svjetski rat m

• Slovak: svetová vojna f
• Slovene: svetovna vojna f
• Spanish: guerra mundial f
• Sranan Tongo: grontapufeti
• Swedish: världskrig (sv) n
• Tagalog: digmaang pandaigdig
• Telugu: ప్రపంచ యుద్ధము (prapañca yuddhamu)
• Thai: สงครามโลก (th) (sǒng-kraam-lôok)
• Turkish: dünya savaşı
• Ukrainian: світова́ війна́ f (svitová vijná)
• Uzbek: jahon urushi
• Vietnamese: chiến tranh thế giới, thế chiến (vi)
• Vilamovian: wełtkrig m
• Volapük: volakrig, volaklig (obsolete spelling)
• West Frisian: wrâldkriich, wrâldoarloch
• Yiddish: וועלט־מלחמה f (velt-milkhome)