civil war

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A war fought between factions of the inhabitants of a single country, or a similar political entity.
    — Our Father’s Death Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War, And cloſe the Scene of Blood.

词形变化

civil wars plural

词源

Calque of Latin bellum cīvīle, in English from 1651 in reference to the English Civil War, with possible early use in the 15th and 16th centuries as wer cyuile or ciuill warre. Displaced native Old English inġewinn.
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