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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun World War II.
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- proper noun
World War II .
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- noun a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
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Examples
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In the Second World War, the leadership knew that the American people could be brought together by asking them to sacrifice.
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Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been voted as the third worst premier in UK history since the Second World War, APA reports quoting presstv. ir website.
APA 2010
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