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Trojan War

/ˌtroʊdʒən wɔər/
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Definitions of Trojan War
  1. noun
    (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 story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad”
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    war, warfare
    the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
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