English Explanatory Dictionary

Eighty Years' War

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The conflict in the Low Countries against Spanish rule, from 1568 to 1648, that gradually turned into a Dutch war of independence.

Word forms

Eighty Years' War

Etymology

Calque of Dutch Tachtigjarige Oorlog.

Related words

Thirty Years' War
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