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

1 sense of wars of the roses

Sense 1
War of the Roses, Wars of the Roses -- (struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII)
       INSTANCE OF=> war, warfare -- (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war")