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PELOPONNESIAN WAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Peloponnesian War mean?
• PELOPONNESIAN WAR (noun)
The noun PELOPONNESIAN WAR has 1 sense:
1. a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC
Familiarity information: PELOPONNESIAN WAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Meronyms (parts of "Peloponnesian War"):
Aegospotami; Aegospotamos (a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC))
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