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HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Hundred Years' War mean?
• HUNDRED YEARS' WAR (noun)
The noun HUNDRED YEARS' WAR has 1 sense:
1. the series of wars fought intermittently between France and England; 1337-1453
Familiarity information: HUNDRED YEARS' WAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The series of wars fought intermittently between France and England; 1337-1453
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Meronyms (parts of "Hundred Years' War"):
battle of Crecy; Crecy (the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois)
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