WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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half*, climate, weather, arctic, cyclone, storm, woman, meteorology>, prognostication
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war, warfare,
1. NOUN. (warfare)
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
"thousands of people were killed in the war"
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war,
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limited war, psychological warfare, war of nerves, civil war, chemical warfare, chemical operations, biological warfare, BW, biological attack, biologic attack, bioattack, information warfare, IW, jihad, jehad, international jihad, world war, Chino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War, Macedonian War, Arab-Israeli War, Six-Day War, Six Day War, Arab-Israeli War, Yom Kippur War, Balkan Wars, Boer War, Crimean War, Franco-Prussian War, French and Indian War, Hundred Years' War, Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War, Korean War, Mexican War, Napoleonic Wars, Peloponnesian War, Persian Gulf War, Gulf War, Punic War, Russo-Japanese War, Seven Years' War, Spanish-American War, Spanish War, Thirty Years' War, Trojan War, Vietnam War, Vietnam, War of Greek Independence, War of the Austrian Succession, War of the Grand Alliance, War of the League of Augsburg, War of the Spanish Succession, War of the Roses, Wars of the Roses, War of 1812, hot war,
