Alternative form of war to end all wars

A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

(military, archaic except humorous) A man whose occupation is fighting in wars; a soldier, a warrior.

Alternative form of man-of-war

(intransitive) To enter into an armed conflict. / (intransitive) (of a person) To depart, typically from one's home, to join an army at war.

(historical) The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991.

(Internet) A dispute on a wiki or in a git repository where two users repeatedly revert one another's changes to an article.

A woman who marries a man who is on active military duty in wartime; especially, a woman who marries a foreign soldier serving in her country and then emigrates to his.

A war involving the major nations of the world.

Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history. / Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914. / Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.