pre-war
See also: prewar
English
[edit]
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹiːˈwɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹiˈwɔɹ/
Audio (General American): (file)
Adjective
[edit]pre-war (not comparable)
- 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.
- 1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34:
- The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.
- 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.
Usage notes
[edit]With reference to the World Wars, pre-war (before the outbreak of World War I in 1914) is contrasted with interwar (between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939) and post-war (after the end of World War II in 1945), but is also used to refer to some period prior to the outbreak of World War II.
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Before a war
|
Further reading
[edit]- “pre-war”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “pre-war, prewar”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *preh₂-
- English terms prefixed with pre-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (before)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English multiword terms
- English terms with quotations