Cold War
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3.5
- noun
- /koʊld wɔr/
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- The Cold War was a period marked by intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- end of the Cold War
- post-Cold War
- the Cold War era
So it does, you know, the echoes of the Cold War you can certainly hear.
- So it does, you know, the echoes of the Cold War you can certainly hear.
- It would start to diminish as the Cold War ended.
- So we've had space weapons, you know, since the Cold War years.
- Both we and Russia are today rebuilding our Cold War nuclear arsenals.
- And these are the years of the of the Cold War.
- Think about it, Is it our fault that we won the Cold War here in the West?
- Maybe they should feed these AI some Cold War movies before the next round of War Games.
- How to keep the Cold War cold.
- So the the hot war in Southeast Asia, the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
- So it is clear that the end of the Cold War was not quite the end of history.
- Imperial Gamble, Putin, Ukraine and the New Cold War.
- And, you know, it's the height of the Cold War.
- To Boris and Natasha, the spies from the old Cold War cartoon series Rocky and Bullwinkle.
- And Speaking of the Cold War, who gets to own the land?
Examples
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It is safe to say that a state of Cold War in Europe is now a fact.
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And since the end of the Cold War, ethnonationalism has continued to reshape European borders.
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Think about it, Is it our fault that we won the Cold War here in the West?
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That was a difficult thing to do right at the end of the Cold War because of East Germany.
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Then we'll go into the Cold War again.
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The Cold War is over.
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The Cold War was ending.
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In the final days of the Cold War, this system once again proved remarkably successful.
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After the Cold War, these guys went private, working out of Romania mostly.
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Many books on the still-controversial history of the early Cold War have recently appeared.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
14
3.6
A long time of tense relations between countries without open fighting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Cold + war
‘Cold’ contrasts with ‘hot’, so a B1 learner who knows both words can plausibly infer a ‘war’ that is not fought with hot/active fighting — i.e., a conflict without direct armed combat. However, the specific historical, geopolitical sense (the US–Soviet rivalry between 1945–1990) and the conventionalized status of the term are not derivable from the constituents alone; cross‑linguistic equivalents make the non‑literal sense more recognizable but not fully predictable.
Etymology
Cold War comes from the idea of a Cold War — a fight that is tense and dangerous but not fought with direct battles. That's why the phrase means 'a long political struggle without direct fighting'.