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world war (plural world wars)
- A war involving the major nations of the world.
1894, George Griffith, The Angel of the Revolution, page 69:Their lips met in one long silent kiss, and a moment later he had gone to strike the first blow in the coming world-war, and to bring the beginning of sorrows on the Tyrant of the North.
1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 9, in Crome Yellow[1], London: Chatto & Windus:[…] Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated.
a war involving the major nations of the world
- Albanian: luftë botërore f
- Arabic: الْحَرْب الْعَالَمِيَّة f (al-ḥarb al-ʕālamiyya)
- Armenian: համաշխարհային պատերազմ (hamašxarhayin paterazm)
- Azerbaijani: dünya müharibəsi
- Bavarian: Wödkriag
- Belarusian: сусве́тная вайна́ f (susvjétnaja vajná)
- Bulgarian: свето́вна война́ f (svetóvna vojná)
- Burmese: ကမ္ဘာစစ် (my) (kambhacac)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 世界大戰/世界大战 (zh) (shìjiè dàzhàn)
- Chuvash: тӗнче вӑрҫи (tĕnč̬e vărś̬i)
- Crimean Tatar: cian cenki
- Czech: světová válka f
- Danish: verdenskrig c
- Dutch: wereldoorlog (nl) m, wereldbrand (nl) m, wereldkrijg m
- Esperanto: mondmilito (eo)
- Estonian: ilmasõda, maailmasõda
- Finnish: maailmansota (fi)
- French: guerre mondiale (fr) f
- Galician: guerra mundial f
- Georgian: მსოფლიო ომი (msoplio omi)
- German: Weltkrieg (de) m
- Greek: παγκόσμιος πόλεμος m (pagkósmios pólemos)
- Hebrew: מלחמת העולם \ מִלְחֶמֶת עוֹלָם (he) f (milkhemet 'olam)
- Hindi: विश्वयुद्ध (hi) m (viśvayuddh), महासमर (hi) m (mahāsmar), महायुद्ध (hi) m (mahāyuddh), महाबेधक (hi) m (mahābedhak)
- Hungarian: világháború (hu)
- Hunsrik: Weltkriegh m
- Icelandic: heimsstyrjöld f, veraldarstríð n
- Japanese: 世界大戦 (ja) (せかいたいせん, sekai taisen)
- Khmer: សង្គ្រាមលោក (sɑngkriəm look)
- Korean: 세계 대전(世界大戰) (segye daejeon)
- Latin: bellum mundānum n
- Latvian: pasaules karš m
- Lithuanian: pasaulinis karas m
- Luxembourgish: Weltkrich m
- Macedonian: светска војна f (svetska vojna)
- Manx: caggey dowanagh m
- Nogai: дуныя согысы (dunıya sogısı)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: verdenskrig (no) m
- Nynorsk: verdskrig m
- Pijin: wol wo
- Polish: wojna światowa f
- Portuguese: guerra mundial m
- Romanian: război mondial n
- Russian: мирова́я война́ (ru) f (mirovája vojná)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: светски рат m, свјетски рат m
- Roman: svetski rat m, svjetski rat m
- Slovak: svetová vojna f
- Slovene: svetovna vojna f
- Spanish: guerra mundial f
- Sranan Tongo: grontapufeti
- Swedish: världskrig (sv) n
- Tagalog: digmaang pandaigdig
- Telugu: ప్రపంచ యుద్ధము (prapañca yuddhamu)
- Thai: สงครามโลก (th) (sǒng-kraam-lôok)
- Turkish: dünya savaşı (tr)
- Ukrainian: світова́ війна́ f (svitová vijná)
- Uzbek: jahon urushi
- Vietnamese: chiến tranh thế giới (vi), thế chiến (vi)
- Vilamovian: wełtkrig m
- Volapük: volakrig, volaklig (obsolete spelling)
- West Frisian: wrâldkriich, wrâldoarloch
- Yiddish: וועלט־מלחמה f (velt-milkhome)
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