World War I
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- proper noun
- /wɜrld wɔr wʌn/
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Primera Guerra Mundial
- Direct negotiations between Arabs and Jews after World War I foundered.
Examples
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This practice began before World War I and continued until the 1960s.
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The CPI was designed in 1919 because prices had risen during World War I to provide an index for cost-of-living adjustments for workers' wages.
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"During World War I, men would have spent much of their lives down here.
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A century later, World War I, which in fact was largely a European war, drew in the United States from across the Atlantic.
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Anti-German feeling ran especially high during World War I.
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On the eve of World War I, the key players in the European balance of power were more or less evenly matched.
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With fighting still raging on World War I's Western Front, the Allies were desperate for Russia to rejoin the struggle against Germany.
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For several hundred years leading up to World War I, all of Israel, the Kingdom of Jordan, and the putative state of Palestine were merely provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
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As leader of American Zionism right after World War I, Brandeis protested the heavy subsidization of the socialist endeavors in Palestine.
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Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
Synonyms
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A large war in Europe from 1914 to 1918 between many countries, also called World War I
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A war in Europe from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies and Central Powers
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A global war fought mainly in Europe from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies and Central Powers
A name for World War I used by people who hoped it would stop future wars
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'world' (global) + 'war' (armed conflict) + 'I' (the Roman numeral one) yields the idea of the first global war, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it refers to the first large-scale/worldwide war. Although precise dates and parties are not contained in the words, the core referent and the numbering convention are predictable and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
World War I gets its name because the fighting involved many countries across the world, so people called it a 'world war'. After a second great conflict happened, people began to add 'I' to show it was the 'first world war'.