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Cold War

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/ˌkəʊld ˈwɔː/UK/ˌkoʊld ˈwɔɹ/US

Etymology

Coined by American journalist Herbert Bayard Swope in 1947, in a speech he wrote for Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), an American financier and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.

  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 cold war — “cold + war”

Definitions

  1. The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers,…

    The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991.

    • The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.

  2. A period of hostile relations between rivals where direct open warfare between them is…

    A period of hostile relations between rivals where direct open warfare between them is largely undesired and avoided; especially, either the Cold War or Cold War II.

    • 1951, Daniel V. Gallery, Clear the Decks, 19 October 1945, page 100, World War III started on VJ Day as a cold war. It began to warm up when the Russians blockaded Berlin and nearly reached the exploding point in Korea.
    • It's just an old war / Not even a cold war

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