Crimean War
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- proper noun
- /kraɪˈmiːən wɔr/
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Guerra de Crimea
- The Crimean War was a significant conflict in the 19th century involving several major powers.
- Crimean War in 1853
- Crimean War (1853-56)
- Crimean War in 1856
Examples
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The public's attitude toward nursing changed almost overnight with the activities of Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War.
Academic text (2002) -
Turkish cigarettes became fashionable during the Crimean War, at which time tobacconists in England and France first began to hand-roll cigarettes for the luxury trade.
Academic text (1993) -
Yet he maintained that in the Crimean War, England should have supported Russia as a Christian power rather than Turkey.
Academic text (1990) -
It's named for Liston, who was a surgeon in the Crimean War.
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She used her knowledge of mathematics to interpret data collected during her service in the Crimean War.
Academic text (2005) -
In the wake of the bloody Crimean War in the mid-1850s, a movement grew in Europe to address war's savagery.
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Russia was among the first countries to create a unit for intelligence evaluation, spurred by its capitulation in the Crimean War in 1856.
Academic text (2006) -
In fact, the episode is about two photographs by the same person, Errol Morris, who was documenting the Crimean War in 1855.
Blog text (25) -
London's Punch, for example, portrayed the cooperation between France and Britain in the Crimean War with political cartoons that foregrounded fashion.
Academic text (1997) -
When the tsar asked for Austrian help against the western powers during the Crimean War in 1854, Franz Josef refused it.
Academic text (2011)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines a place adjective 'Crimean' (connected with Crimea) with the noun 'war', so its basic meaning — a war involving or taking place in Crimea — is directly inferable from the parts. This place‑name + conflict composition is cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can understand the MWE’s general meaning even if they lack the historical details.
Etymology
Crimean War comes from Crimea, the peninsula where the main battles were fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire and Sardinia from 1853 to 1856. So when people say Crimean War they mean that specific 'war fought in Crimea', and the name helps you remember the place and the famous story of nurses caring for wounded soldiers.