EGAVE

pre-war

Meaning

  1. adjective Before a war. 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. Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940. Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.
  2. adjective Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
  3. adjective Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
  4. adjective Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940. Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.
  5. adjective Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940.
  6. adjective Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.

Similar words

prewar war prewartime preinvasion precombat antebellum preconflict premilitary transwar afterwar

Word family

prewar

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