warfare

«warfare» in Mova's school dictionary: fighting in a war, or the way a war is fought — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (warfare — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

Warfare is fighting in a war, or the way a war is fought. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, children learn about different kinds of warfare. Phrases: modern warfare, chemical warfare.

examples

• Warfare changed when guns were invented. tree →
• Ancient warfare used swords and shields. tree →
• Chemical warfare is banned. tree →
• The book is about warfare at sea. tree →
• Warfare causes great suffering. tree →
• Knights trained for warfare. tree →
• In the above-described warfare, if a Pygmy chanced to pluck out a crane's tail feather, it proved a very great feather in his cap. tree →

note

Uncountable. Not «a warfare».

In the corpora

• And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «warfare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.