Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun thirty_years'_war

1 sense of thirty years' war

Sense 1
Thirty Years' War -- (a series of conflicts (1618-1648) between Protestants and Catholics starting in Germany and spreading until France and Denmark and Sweden were opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain)
       INSTANCE OF=> war, warfare -- (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war")