WARS OF THE ROSES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wars of the Roses mean? 

• WARS OF THE ROSES (noun)
  The noun WARS OF THE ROSES has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: WARS OF THE ROSES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARS OF THE ROSES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

War of the Roses; Wars of the Roses

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Wars of the Roses"):

Bosworth Field (the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485); Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)