War and Peace

noun

1. a novel (1862–69) by Leo Tolstoy.

War and Peace

1. (1865–1869) A novel by Leo Tolstoy . It recounts the history of several Russian families during the wars against Napoleon Bonaparte . Many consider it the greatest novel ever written.

Example Sentences

Biden succinctly summarized his broad view of world politics and made it personal, citing his involvement in the ups and downs of war and peace over the past half-century as the basis of his hopes for the future.

From Slate

Ten years after, she has yet to finish her second book, which has bloomed into an elephantine “four-hundred-year history of mulatto people in fictional form” — what her husband Lenny calls a “mulatto ‘War and Peace.’”

From Los Angeles Times

"We're not talking about Playboy magazine, you know, we're talking about Anna Karenina and War and Peace," Ms Hayes said.

From BBC

There, opinion is still divided on the key questions of war and peace.

From Slate

Today, that frontier with the European Union is a dividing line between war and peace.

From Los Angeles Times