PELOPONNESIAN WAR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Meronyms (parts of "Peloponnesian War"):

Aegospotami; Aegospotamos (a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC))

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