"total war" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: total wars [plural]
Etymology: Calque of German totaler Krieg, coined by Erich Ludendorff. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|de|totaler Krieg}} Calque of German totaler Krieg Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} total war (countable and uncountable, plural total wars)
  1. Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed. Wikipedia link: Erich Ludendorff, total war Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): War Translations (warfare where all of a country's resources are employed): الحَرْب الشَّامِلَةُ (al-ḥarb aš-šāmilatu) [masculine] (Arabic), տոտալ պատերազմ (english: total paterazm) (Armenian), татальная вайна (tatalʹnaja vajna) [feminine] (Belarusian), тотална война (totalna vojna) [feminine] (Bulgarian), guerra total [feminine] (Catalan), 總體戰 (Chinese Mandarin), 总体战 (zǒngtǐzhàn) (Chinese Mandarin), totální válka [feminine] (Czech), total krig [common-gender] (Danish), totale oorlog [masculine] (Dutch), totala milito (Esperanto), totaalinen sota (Finnish), totaalinen sodankäynti (Finnish), guerre totale [feminine] (French), guerra total [feminine] (Galician), მთელი ომი (mteli omi) (Georgian), totaler Krieg [masculine] (German), ολοκληρωτικός πόλεμος (oloklirotikós pólemos) [masculine] (Greek), מלחמה כוללת (milkhome kulelet) [feminine] (Hebrew), totális háború (Hungarian), guerra totale [feminine] (Italian), 国家総力戦 (kokka-sō-rikisen) (Japanese), 総力戦 (sōryoku-sen) (Japanese), 총력전 (chongnyeokjeon) (Korean), тотална војна (totalna vojna) [feminine] (Macedonian), total krig [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), total krig [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), total krigføring [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), جنگ تمامعیار (jang tamâm ayar) (Persian), wojna totalna [feminine] (Polish), guerra total [feminine] (Portuguese), război total [neuter] (Romanian), тотальная война (totalʹnaja vojna) [feminine] (Russian), тотални рат [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), totalni rat [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), totálna vojna [feminine] (Slovak), totalna vojna [feminine] (Slovene), guerra total [feminine] (Spanish), total krigföring [common-gender] (Swedish), สงครามเบ็ดเสร็จ (sǒng-kraam-bèt-sèt) (Thai), topyekûn savaş (Turkish), тотальна війна (totalʹna vijna) [feminine] (Ukrainian), chiến tranh toàn diện (Vietnamese)

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          "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
          "word": "topyekûn savaş"
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    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "total krig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "total krigføring"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "jang tamâm ayar",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "word": "جنگ تمامعیار"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wojna totalna"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "guerra total"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "război total"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "totalʹnaja vojna",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тотальная война"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тотални рат"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "totalni rat"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "totálna vojna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "totalna vojna"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "guerra total"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "total krigföring"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sǒng-kraam-bèt-sèt",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "word": "สงครามเบ็ดเสร็จ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "word": "topyekûn savaş"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "totalʹna vijna",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тотальна війна"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "warfare where all of a country's resources are employed",
      "word": "chiến tranh toàn diện"
    }
  ],
  "word": "total war"
}

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