THIRTY YEARS' WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thirty Years' War mean? 

• THIRTY YEARS' WAR (noun)
  The noun THIRTY YEARS' WAR has 1 sense:

1. a series of conflicts (1618-1648) between Protestants and Catholics starting in Germany and spreading until France and Denmark and Sweden were opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain

  Familiarity information: THIRTY YEARS' WAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTY YEARS' WAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A series of conflicts (1618-1648) between Protestants and Catholics starting in Germany and spreading until France and Denmark and Sweden were opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Thirty Years' War"):

battle of Lutzen; Lutzen (a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632); Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empire under Wallenstein; Gustavus Adolphus was killed)

Battle of Rocroi; Rocroi (a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643); the French defeated the Spanish invaders)