armed combat vs hostilities

armed combat and hostilities both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
armed combat	Yes	No	No	No
hostilities	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hostilities is a hyponym of armed combat; that is, hostilities is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than armed combat:

armed combat: an engagement fought between two military forces
hostilities: fighting; acts of overt warfare

Other hyponyms of armed combat include belligerency, trench warfare, aggression.

armed combat (noun)	hostilities (noun)
an engagement fought between two military forces	fighting; acts of overt warfare

armed combat vs hostilities

armed combat and hostilities both are nouns.

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