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English
Etymology
From war + fare; perhaps a shortening of Middle English werre-faringe, werfarynge (“waging war, warfare”, literally “going to war”).
Pronunciation
Noun
warfare (usually uncountable, plural warfares)
- The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.
- Military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare.
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Translations
the waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: вядзенне вайны n (vjadzjennje vajny)
- Bulgarian: воюване (bg) n (vojuvane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: krigsførelse c
- Dutch: krijgsvoering f, oorlogvoering (nl) f, strijd (nl) m
- Esperanto: militado
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: sodankäynti (fi), sota (fi), sotiminen (fi)
- French: guerre (fr) f
- Georgian: ომიანობა (omianoba), ომის წარმოება (omis c̣armoeba)
- German: Kriegsführung (de) f
- Greek: πόλεμος (el) m (pólemos), σύρραξη (el) f (sýrraxi), εχθροπραξίες (el) f pl (echthropraxíes), πάλη (el) f (páli) (metaphorical)
- Hungarian: hadviselés (hu)
- Italian: battaglia (it) f, combattimento (it) m
- Khmer: សង្គ្រាម (km) (sɑngkriəm)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: воју́вање n (vojúvanje)
- Maori: matawhāura, rīriri
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: krigføring m or f
- Old English: campdōm m, gūþcræft f
- Polish: prowadzenie wojny n, wojna (pl) f
- Romanian: război (ro) n, luptă (ro) f
- Russian: веде́ние войны́ (ru) n (vedénije vojný)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: การสู้รบ
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: chiến tranh (vi)
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military operations of some particular kind
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Verb
warfare (third-person singular simple present warfares, present participle warfaring, simple past and past participle warfared)
- To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
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