anti-war
- noun
- /ˈæn.ti.wɔr/
- Because he'll have to make good on that campaign promise for at least a few months and that might give us time to strengthen the anti-war coalition.
- an anti-war movement
Like environmental justice, anti war, right.
- Like environmental justice, anti war, right.
- And I started to date Tom who was extremely knowledgeable and all things movement and anti war.
Examples
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But when he encountered the counterculture and anti-war movements in the United States, he decided to stay.
Academic text (2000) -
A series of sepia images of anti-war protests from the mid-sixties appear one after another on the screen.
Fiction book (1998) -
Throughout the war, an anti-war movement had grown in America.
Fiction book (1998) -
However, I rather strongly disagree with the anti war sentiment.
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In his youth, the then Prime Minister had been an anti-war protestor.
Blog text (13) -
I remember several conversations with other anti-war activists during the Bush administration.
Blog text (12) -
Never before in our history has an avowed anti-war candidate been elected president during a time of war.
Blog text (13) -
President Nixon was in office, and there was a great deal of anti-war sentiment on campus, Rasmussen notes.
Blog text (14) -
While I'm still a peace-loving, anti-war kind of girl, I understand more fully what makes veterans tick.
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The anti-war movement organized large rallies to voice their opposition to military conflict.
Synonyms
A group of people who try to stop a war by holding peaceful protests
A person who is against war and supports peace by calling for talks
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Etymology
The word anti-war joins the part anti- ('against') and the word war ('war'), so an anti-war as a noun is a person or group 'against war'. That's why an anti-war often takes part in protests or movements that want peace.