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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground;
- Example: "the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Trojan War
    n 1: (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and
         Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy,
         the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by
         Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse)
         achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground; "the
         story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad"