War

1. n. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
2. a. Ware; aware.
3. n. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
4. n. A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
5. n. Instruments of war.
6. n. Forces; army.
7. n. The profession of arms; the art of war.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.