(Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground | the waging of armed conflict against an enemy |
| a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious |
| an active struggle between competing entities |
| a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply |