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YOM KIPPUR WAR

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• YOM KIPPUR WAR (noun)
The noun YOM KIPPUR WAR has 1 sense:

1. Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt

Familiarity information: YOM KIPPUR WAR used as a noun is very rare.

• YOM KIPPUR WAR (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Arab-Israeli War; Yom Kippur War

Instance hypernyms:

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

Domain region:

Middle East; Mideast; Near East (the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century)

"Every why has a wherefore."
(English proverb)
"Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something."
(Native American proverb, Maricopa)
"What would the blind want? A bag of eyes."
(Arabic proverb)
"He who seeks, finds."
(Corsican proverb)

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