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

1 sense of trojan war

Sense 1
Trojan War -- ((Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground; "the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad")
       INSTANCE OF=> war, warfare -- (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war")