Hundred Years' War
- proper noun
- /ˈhʌndrəd jɪrz wɔr/
- Many key battles were fought during the Hundred Years' War, including the Battle of Agincourt.
Examples
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I'd thought that the Channel Islands had been the one part of Normandy the French hadn't taken over around the end of the Hundred Years' War, so they had always belonged to the Duchess of Normandy.
Blog text (31) -
The Hundred Years' War between France and England was devastating, economic depression was chronic, and widespread bands of hallucinatory pilgrims practiced group flagellation.
Academic text (2000) -
In time, the siege was more remote; it occurred in 1370 during the Hundred Years' War.
Academic text (1991) -
The Crusades, the Hundred Years' War, and civil wars such as the Thirty Years' War are all feudal troops on the march with stopping points: from castle to castle.
Academic text (1993) -
In A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman noted that areas in France and England that were populated before the Hundred Years' War were depopulated because of the war and have never been repopulated.
Blog text (19) -
The first congresses we can trace back to the XIV century were organized more for religious motives, even if the first political congress was organized in 1435 in Arras to put an end to the Hundred Years' War.
Blog text (31) -
The cannon fodder who played for the university had come to seem to Dr. Jellinek like ranks of willing soldiers freshly recruited for a long war that they were already destined never to win—the Thirty Years' War, the Hundred Years' War.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Hundred Years' War was a significant conflict that shaped the history of England and France.
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The Hundred Years' War began in 1337 and lasted until 1453, primarily over territorial disputes.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The headword is transparently built from 'hundred' + 'years' + 'war', so a learner who knows those words can infer it refers to a war lasting one hundred years. Although the specific historical parties and dates are not derivable from the phrase, the core meaning (a war of a hundred years' duration) is directly compositional and cross-linguistically obvious.
Etymology
Hundred Years' War comes from the long, on-and-off fighting between England and France from 1337 to 1453. Because the wars stretched for 'about a hundred years', people gave the whole series this short name to describe the 'struggle over the French throne'.