TROJAN WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trojan War mean? 

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

1. (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROJAN WAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad

Instance hypernyms:

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

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)