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WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does War of the League of Augsburg mean?
• WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG (noun)
The noun WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG has 1 sense:
1. an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)
Familiarity information: WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
War of the Grand Alliance; War of the League of Augsburg
Instance hypernyms:
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Meronyms (parts of "War of the League of Augsburg"):
battle of Boyne; Boyne (a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts)
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