CIVIL WAR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A war between factions in the same country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("civil war" is a kind of...):

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Instance hyponyms:

American Civil War; United States Civil War; War between the States (civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865)

English Civil War (civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I; 1644-1648)

Spanish Civil War (civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government; during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries; 1936-1939)

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