CRIMEAN WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Crimean War mean? 

• CRIMEAN WAR (noun)
  The noun CRIMEAN WAR has 1 sense:

1. a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia; 1853-1856

  Familiarity information: CRIMEAN WAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIMEAN WAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia; 1853-1856

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Domain region:

Crimea (a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov)

 Context examples 

For two days the Hon. Philip Green (he was, I may mention, the son of the famous admiral of that name who commanded the Sea of Azof fleet in the Crimean War) brought us no news.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)