WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Prussia and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides; 1740-1748

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "War of the Austrian Succession"):

Battle of Fontenoy; Fontenoy (a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland)

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