STATE OF WAR as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring
    Hypernyms(s) state of war is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Antonym(s) Hyponym(s) Derived(s)