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FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Franco-Prussian War mean?
• FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR (noun)
The noun FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR has 1 sense:
1. a war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871
Familiarity information: FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Context examples
There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich the year after the Franco-Prussian War.
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