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CENTRAL POWERS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Central Powers mean?
• CENTRAL POWERS (noun)
The noun CENTRAL POWERS has 1 sense:
1. in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies
Familiarity information: CENTRAL POWERS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Central Powers" is a kind of...):
alignment; alinement; alliance; coalition (an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty)
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