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WAR OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE

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• WAR OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE (noun)
The noun WAR OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE has 1 sense:

1. an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)

Familiarity information: WAR OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE used as a noun is very rare.

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• WAR OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE (noun)

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Meaning:

An aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

War of the Grand Alliance; War of the League of Augsburg

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "War of the Grand Alliance"):

battle of Boyne; Boyne (a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts)

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