war of independence

noun phrase

: a war that is fought to gain independence

Examples of war of independence in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

His mother and father fled during the country’s war of independence with Ethiopia, which started in 1962. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026

Martí, a journalist and a poet, was an essential figure in the nineteenth-century war of independence, in which Cuban élites revolted against the Spanish colonists. — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2026

Front Royal, Virginia — King Charles III came to the United States to mark Britain’s loss in the war of independence. — Max Foster, CNN Money, 1 May 2026

The displacement of so many Jews from their ancient home becomes a kind of tit for tat—a balancing act of victimhood against the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled during Israel’s war of independence. — Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026

Rhymes for war of independence

• ascendance
• attendance
• dependance
• dependence
• transcendence
• interdependence
• superintendence
• tendance