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WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION

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• WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION (noun)
The noun WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION has 1 sense:

1. Prussia and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides; 1740-1748

Familiarity information: WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION used as a noun is very rare.

• WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Prussia and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides; 1740-1748

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Meronyms (parts of "War of the Austrian Succession"):

Battle of Fontenoy; Fontenoy (a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland)

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