Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun state_of_war

1 sense of state of war

Sense 1
war, state of war -- (a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring")
       => hostility, enmity, antagonism -- (a state of deep-seated ill-will)