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At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.
Nina Bawden

Meaning of "Second World War" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SECOND WORLD WAR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SECOND WORLD WAR

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Second World War is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SECOND WORLD WAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Second World War

World War II

United Kingdom Soviet Union United States France China Poland Canada Australia Yugoslavia Greece Netherlands Belgium South Africa New Zealand Norway Czechoslovakia Ethiopia Brazil Denmark Luxembourg Cuba Mexico Client and puppet states: India Philippines Mongolia Axis Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Co-belligerents: Finland Thailand Iraq Client and puppet states: Albania Croatia Slovakia Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere puppets Manchukuo China-Nanjing Mengjiang Philippines Burma Azad Hind Vietnam Commanders and leaders Allied leaders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin D. Roosevelt Chiang Kai-shek Axis leaders Adolf Hitler Hirohito Benito Mussolini Casualties and losses Military dead: Over 16,000,000 Civilian dead: Over 45,000,000 Total dead: Over 61,000,000 ...further details Military dead: Over 8,000,000 Civilian dead: Over 4,000,000 Total dead: Over 12,000,000 ...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SECOND WORLD WAR

Second Reich
Second Republic
second row
second sight
second string
second teeth
second thought
Second Triumvirate

WORDS THAT END LIKE SECOND WORLD WAR

American Civil War
Anglo-Boer War
Boer War
Crimean War
First World War
Franco-Prussian War
Great War
Gulf War
Iran-Iraq War
Korean War
Peloponnesian War
Peninsular War
Revolutionary War
Russo-Japanese War
Seven Years´ War
South African War
Spanish-American War
Spanish Civil War
Trojan War
Yom Kippur War

Synonyms and antonyms of Second World War in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Second World War» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SECOND WORLD WAR

Find out the translation of Second World War to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Second World War from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Second World War» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

第二次世界大战
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Segunda Guerra Mundial
570 millions of speakers

English

Second World War
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الحرب العالمية الثانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Вторая мировая война
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Segunda Guerra Mundial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দ্বিতীয় বিশ্বযুদ্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Seconde Guerre mondiale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perang Dunia Kedua
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zweiten Weltkrieg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

第二次世界大戦
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

차 세계 대전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perang Donya II
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரண்டாம் உலகப் போர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुसरे महायुद्ध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İkinci dünya savaşı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Seconda Guerra Mondiale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

II wojna światowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Друга світова війна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Al Doilea Război Mondial
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Tweede Wêreldoorlog
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Andra världskriget
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Second World War
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Second World War

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SECOND WORLD WAR»

The term «Second World War» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.342 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SECOND WORLD WAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Second World War

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10 QUOTES WITH «SECOND WORLD WAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Second World War.
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Elliott Abrams
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism.
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Jan Peter Balkenende
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.
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Jan Peter Balkenende
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
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Lynne Reid Banks
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.
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Donald Barthelme
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.
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Traian Basescu
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.
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Nina Bawden
At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.
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Antony Beevor
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
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Lionel Blue
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SECOND WORLD WAR»

Discover the use of Second World War in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Second World War and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Second World War
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China.
Antony Beevor, 2012
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The Second World War
Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a ...
Antony Beevor, 2012
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The Second World War
Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a ...
Antony Beevor, 2012
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The Origins of the Second World War
No one who has digested this enthralling work will ever be able to look at the period again in quite the same way’ Sunday Telegraph.
A.J.P. Taylor, 2001
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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
In this stunning volume, Fussell conveys the essence of that war as no other writer before him has.
Paul Fussell, 1990
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History of the Second World War
"The best book if its kind. . . . Liddell Hart writes with no national bias, and is as critical of British--and Allied--performance as of the enemy's".
Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 1999
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Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War
The first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers who served with the British army during the Second World War.
David Killingray, 2010
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Pius XII and the Second World War: According to the Archives ...
The first one-volume history, based on the Vatican archives, of Pope Pius XII and his dealings with the contesting powers and with the Jews during World War II.
Pierre Blet, 1999
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Britain in the Second World War: A Social History
This concise, readable volume provides original documents from the war years which help the reader evaluate claims that the war introduced a new sense of social solidarity and social idealism which led to a consensus on welfare state reform ...
Harold L. Smith, 1996
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The British Empire and the Second World War
A pioneering study of the role Britain's empire played in fighting the Second World War.
Ashley Jackson, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SECOND WORLD WAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Second World War is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mitsubishi to apologize for American POWs' forced labor in second
A major Japanese corporation planned to offer a landmark apology on Sunday for using US prisoners of war for forced labor during the second world war, nearly ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Wembley Second World War bomb: Army detonates Nazi munition
An unexploded WWII bomb, which caused the evacuation of the Britain's Got Talent studios after it was found in north west London, has been safely detonated. «The Independent, May 15»
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Russians March to Celebrate Victory in World War II
Russia marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War today, with huge crowds shrugging off signs of international isolation, and revelling in a ... «ABC News, May 15»
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VE Day: our memories of the second world war and the day it ended
VE Day: our memories of the second world war and the day it ended ... He had fought in the first world war and was just on the point of retirement when he went ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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PM Shinzo Abe plans symbolic visit to second world war memorial in …
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to make a deeply symbolic visit to Washington's second world war memorial next week, hoping to assuage ... «South China Morning Post, Apr 15»
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German Chancellor Merkel reminds Japan to deal with history of …
"This was possible first because Germany did face its past squarely, but also because the Allied Powers who controlled Germany after the second world war ... «South China Morning Post, Mar 15»
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US billionaire Paul Allen discovers 'Second World War Japanese …
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has declared the discovery of a Second World War Japanese battleship which was sunk by the US Navy more than ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
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British Second World War bomb forces evacuation of German …
An unexploded World War II bomb was found near Borussia Dortmund's stadium, ... tonnes of bombs were dropped during the war by Allied and Soviet forces. «Mirror.co.uk, Feb 15»
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New feud erupts between Poland and Russia over Second World War
A new dispute concerning Second World War remembrance has erupted between Poland and Russia – the third such controversy in recent weeks and a sign of ... «The Globe and Mail, Feb 15»
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Angelina Jolie's second world war biopic Unbroken accused of …
Conservatives in Japan have accused Angelina Jolie's second world war biopic Unbroken of racism, with some calling for both the film and director to be ... «The Independent, Dec 14»

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