STATE OF WAR


Meaning of STATE OF WAR in English

Date: 1656

1.

a. : a state of actual armed hostilities regardless of a formal declaration of war

b. : a legal state created and ended by official declaration regardless of actual armed hostilities and usually characterized by operation of the rules of war

2. : the period of time during which a state of war is in effect

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.