First World War

noun

1. World War I.

First World War

noun

1. another name for World War I

Example Sentences

U.K. monarchs have taken a leading role in honoring the nation’s war dead ever since Charles’ great-grandfather King George V presided over the burial of an unknown soldier of the First World War at Westminster Abbey in 1920.

From Seattle Times

“The United States left Europe after the First World War,” he said, adding, with a measure of Scandinavian understatement, “That was not a big success.”

From Salon

Before the first World War and until the Depression, pleasure piers had been built, burned and rebuilt along the shoreline sands of Santa Monica and Venice: the Crystal Pier, the Abbot Kinney Pier, the Million Dollar Pier, the Pickering Pier, Frasier’s Pier, the Ocean Park Pier.

From Los Angeles Times

"Someone at one time said it was like Passchendaele in the First World War," he said in 2022, as part of the BBC We Were There project.

From BBC

The Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, America’s emergence as a world power, the Second World War, and continuing turmoil in the Middle East all have their roots in the First World War.

From Literature