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European War

name

Etymology

From European + war. From being a war fought in Europe.

  1. derived from *wers-✻ — “to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”
  2. derived from *werʀu✻ — “confusion; quarrel”
  3. derived from werra
  4. derived from guerre//werre
  5. inherited from werre//wyrre
  6. inherited from werre
  7. compounded as european war — “European + war”

Definitions

  1. Former name of WWI / World War One / First World War / The Great War.

  2. The European theatre of World War II / WW2 / Second World War

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA