Noun

• S: (n) war, warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy) "thousands of people were killed in the war"
• S: (n) war, state of war (a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply) "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• domain category
• S: (n) war, warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy) "thousands of people were killed in the war"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) hostility, enmity, antagonism (a state of deep-seated ill-will)
• antonym
• W: (n) peace [Opposed to: war] (the state prevailing during the absence of war)
• derivationally related form
• W: (v) war [Related to: war] (make or wage war)
• S: (n) war, warfare (an active struggle between competing entities) "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare"
• S: (n) war (a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious) "the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"

Verb

• S: (v) war (make or wage war)