せんそう
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する)
1. war
2. fighting; fierce competition
Kanji used
war
conflict
Pitch accent
んそう
Top 1700
Used in vocabulary (138 in total)
major war; great war; world war
war by proxy; proxy war
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
(enter into, be in) a state of war
First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)
American Civil War (1861-1865)
warmonger; warmaker
post war; after the war
Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
Greater East Asian War (1941-1945); Pacific War
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
economic warfare; economic war
Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973)
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Opium War (1840-42)
Crimean War (1853-1856)
war experience; experience of war; memories of war
Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
Punic Wars (between Rome and Carthage)
Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
Spanish-American War (1898)
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)
War on Terror (2001-)
Winter War (between Finland and the Soviet Union; 1939-1940)
Balkan Wars (1912, 1913)
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
Arrow War (the second Opium War; 1856-1860)
cold war; the Cold War
War of the Roses
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
Franco-German War (i.e. the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871)
Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)
Battle of Hakodate (battle of the Boshin War; 1868-1869)
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
chaos on the roads; (lit.) traffic war
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War; (lit.) fifteen years' war
(first) Indochina War (1946-1954)
push-button war; war started or ended with the push of a button (e.g. to launch a nuclear missile)
Russo-German War (1941-1945)
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
War of the Roses
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
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)
Sacred Wars (of Ancient Greece)
Sino-French War (1884-1885)
Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654, 1665-1667, 1672-1674)
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Spanish-American War (1898)
Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967); Third Arab-Israeli War
psychological warfare
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870); Paraguayan War
Anglo-Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
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))
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
Turko-Egyptian Wars (1831-1833; 1839-1840)
Anglo-Mysore Wars (1766-1799)
Anglo-Maratha Wars (1777-1783, 1803-1805, 1817-1818)
Lapland War (between Finland and Germany; 1944-1945)
hybrid warfare; hybrid war
War on Terror (2001-)
Continuation War (between Finland and the Soviet Union; 1941-1944)
Foreign Intervention in Russia (1917-1922)
war-risk insurance; war insurance
Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)
Examples (153 in total)
This war is over.
War is unavoidable.
What do you think of war?