Seven Years' War
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- noun
- /ˈsɛvən jɪrz wɔr/
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La Guerra de los Siete Años
- At the end of the Seven Years' War (1756-63), the British captured the island and occupied Havana for eleven months, an experience that set off a transitional period in Cuba's modern development.
- end of the Seven Years' War
- Seven Years' War (1756
- Seven Years' War in 1763
Examples
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Many historians believe the Seven Years' War marked the beginning of modern warfare.
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The Seven Years' War was a significant conflict that reshaped global politics between 1756 and 1763.
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The Seven Years' War between Great Britain and Spain.
Academic text (2015) -
I believe they started moving back in response to the Seven Years' War; it certainly became total after 1760.
Blog text (11) -
After the Seven Years' War, in 1763, Spain had traded Florida for Cuba to the British.
Fiction book (1996) -
While other colonies struggled through an extended depression after the Seven Years' War, which ended in 1763, Georgia experienced a dramatic increase in population, production, and shipping.
Academic text (2007) -
Lands cast of the Mississippi were ceded to Britain, and those to the west were given to Spain in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years' War.
Academic text (2004) -
The end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 removed the Spanish and French threat from the southeast; the Creeks and Cherokees had nowhere else to turn for supplies, and the profit margins were high.
Academic text (2007) -
Elizabeth's statement resonated into the eighteenth century, when, after the Seven Years' War, the Treaty of Paris of 1763 rendered Great Britain dominant over most of eastern North America.
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After the Seven Years' War concluded in 1763, territories in North America changed hands dramatically.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: combining 'seven' + 'years' + 'war' straightforwardly denotes a war associated with a period of seven years (i.e., a war lasting or occurring over seven years). This naming pattern for historical conflicts is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the basic meaning even without knowing the specific historical details.
Etymology
Seven Years' War comes from the fact the war lasted seven years, from 1756 to 1763. Because it involved countries in Europe, North America, and other places, the name helps you remember it was a large, global conflict.