Term: league of nations: an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: corpuscular theory: (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: recognition: an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: viewing audience: the audience reached by television
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: methaqualone: sedative-hypnotic drug (trade name Quaalude) that is a drug of abuse
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: morphophoneme: (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: olive tree: a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: polymath: a person of great and varied learning
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: soldier: a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: pteridology: the branch of botany that studies ferns
Broader: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries | Unrelated: phenylalanine: an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body