Gulf War
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- noun
- /ɡʌlf wɔr/
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Guerra del Golfo
- The Gulf War was a significant military conflict that resulted in the liberation of Kuwait.
- Gulf War veterans
- 1990-1991 Gulf War
- Gulf War against Iraq
I ran CNN during the Gulf War and it was a pretty intense thing to do.
- I ran CNN during the Gulf War and it was a pretty intense thing to do.
- We saw, you know, maybe the first public use of these back in the in the first Gulf War with the Patriot systems.
- I said post first Gulf War, the United States and France had radio stations that they used to broadcast into Iraq during that period of time.
- But by December, the war was coming and the invasion was coming, the Gulf War was coming, Desert Storm was coming.
- He'd been to the Gulf War, not the war to see the troops.
- It's they're good data on on all of these markets during the first Gulf War.
- So they find, you know, valid military target in the Gulf War as they're just like crush and Saddam's all of his military.
- Of course, after the first Gulf War, we left the Kurds, you know, to him brutalizing them, which was.
Examples
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Americans went into the Gulf War expecting and willing to accept some ten thousand casualties.
Academic text (1999) -
Considered together, these undiagnosed symptoms are commonly referred to as Gulf War illness (GWI).
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And at that time the Gulf War was going on.
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You know, from the Gulf War, when l was a little kid.
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In the Gulf War, we knew what we had to do.
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Well, we saw the same symptoms in the Gulf War.
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I ran CNN during the Gulf War and it was a pretty intense thing to do.
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The financial and economic shocks of the Gulf War were, in the short to medium run, also significant.
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He served in the first Gulf War, Desert Storm.
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The Japanese government's attempt to send Self-Defense Forces abroad during the Gulf War was one such example.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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A 1990–1991 war when Iraq invaded Kuwait and a US-led group fought to push out Iraqi troops
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term 'Gulf War' is transparently composed of 'gulf' (a coastal sea area) and 'war' (armed conflict), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a war that took place in the Gulf region. It is a proper name for a specific historical conflict, so learners may not be able to identify exact dates or parties without background knowledge, but the basic meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Gulf War comes from the fighting being near a gulf — a long bay of sea — and a war between countries. So the phrase now usually means 'the 1990–1991 war' when a U.S.-led force pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.