せんそう
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する)
1. war
2. fighting; fierce competition
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (136 in total)
Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
total war; all-out war
war for independence
major war; great war; world war
war by proxy; proxy war
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
Pacific War (1941-1945)
(enter into, be in) a state of war
nuclear warfare
First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)
American Civil War (1861-1865)
playing soldiers
warmonger; warmaker
post war; after the war
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
Greater East Asian War (1941-1945); Pacific War
Korean War (1950-1953)
war preparation
Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces; 1868-1869)
examination war; fiercely competitive university entrance examinations
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
war responsibility (esp. in relation to Japan's role in WWII)
act of war; hostile act
Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
Opium War (1840-42)
Opium War (1840-42)
economic warfare; economic war
Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973)
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Crimean War (1853-1856)
Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
war experience; experience of war; memories of war
Battle of Hakodate (battle of the Boshin War; 1868-1869)
War of the Roses
War of the Roses
Punic Wars (between Rome and Carthage)
Spanish-American War (1898)
Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
all-out war; full-scale war
War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
conflict between a bride and her mother-in-law; (lit.) bride and mother-in-law war
Battle of Ueno (battle of the Boshin war; 1868)
Greco-Persian Wars
Greco-Persian Wars
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
War on Terror (2001-)
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Winter War (between Finland and the Soviet Union; 1939-1940)
Balkan Wars (1912, 1913)
cold war; the Cold War
aggression; warmongering
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
Arrow War (the second Opium War; 1856-1860)
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
local war; limited war
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
Franco-German War (i.e. the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871)
Spanish-American War (1898)
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
chaos on the roads; (lit.) traffic war
(first) Indochina War (1946-1954)
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War; (lit.) fifteen years' war
Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)
push-button war; war started or ended with the push of a button (e.g. to launch a nuclear missile)
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Russo-German War (1941-1945)
preventive war
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654, 1665-1667, 1672-1674)
Sino-French War (1884-1885)
Sacred Wars (of Ancient Greece)
psychological warfare
War on Terror (2001-)
Anglo-Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)
Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654, 1665-1667, 1672-1674)
Sikh Wars (1845-1846, 1848-1849)
Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))
Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
war-risk insurance; war insurance
Turko-Egyptian Wars (1831-1833; 1839-1840)
Suez War (1956)
Anglo-Mysore Wars (1766-1799)
Anglo-Maratha Wars (1777-1783, 1803-1805, 1817-1818)
war of national liberation
Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967); Third Arab-Israeli War
Continuation War (between Finland and the Soviet Union; 1941-1944)
Lapland War (between Finland and Germany; 1944-1945)
Foreign Intervention in Russia (1917-1922)
hybrid warfare; hybrid war
War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870); Paraguayan War
Examples (153 in total)
This war is over.
War is unavoidable.
What do you think of war?