Strife Definition

strīf
noun
Heated, often violent conflict or disagreement.
American Heritage
The act of striving or vying with another; contention or competition.
Webster's New World
A conflict or quarrel.
American Heritage
The act or state of fighting or quarreling, esp. bitterly; struggle; conflict.
Webster's New World
Strong endeavor.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Strife

Noun

Singular:
strife
Plural:
strifes

Origin of Strife

  • From Old French estrif, from Frankish strÄ«ban, ultimately of Germanic origin, compare German Streit (“quarrel, dispute") and Icelandic stríð (“war") and Dutch strijd.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English strif from Old French estrit, estrif from Frankish strīd

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Strife Sentence Examples

  • But the centre of strife was not to be Arabia.

  • Grote maintains that ostracism was a useful device, on the grounds that it removed the danger of tyranny, and was better than the perpetual civil strife of the previous century.

  • With this civil strife the importance and prosperity of Louvain declined.

  • The early years of the Omayyads were years of constant strife in Arabia.

  • Immediately after the war, strife occurred among the Basuto themselves over the question of the partition of Moirosi's territory, which had been decided on as one of the results of the war.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTR

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EFEIFE

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