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TROJAN WAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground
Example:
the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Domain category:
Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)
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