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CIVIL WAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A war between factions in the same country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("civil war" is a kind of...):
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Instance hyponyms:
American Civil War; United States Civil War; War between the States (civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865)
English Civil War (civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I; 1644-1648)
Spanish Civil War (civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government; during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries; 1936-1939)
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