interwar
adjUK /ˈɪn.tə.wɔ(ː)/
Etymology From inter- + war.
1
During or relating to the period of time between two wars, especially the two World Wars (1919–1939).
- His family emigrated to America in the interwar years.
- But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.1995, John Frank Williams, The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939, page 219:
2 more examples
- One sample menu from the interwar period includes cream cheese and pimento sandwiches, buttered crumpets, coffee éclairs, chocolate sponge roll, buttered date and walnut loaf, maid-of-honor tarts, and queen cakes.2019, Julia Skinner, “The Empire and the Teacup”, in Afternoon Tea: A History, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 54:
- Stenfeldt’s research on Nils Flyg’s and Sven Olov Lindholm’s transition from far-left to the far-right and vice versa during the interwar years is a great example of how Freeden’s morphology of ideologies can be used to not only study ideologies of the far-right, but also to study how ideologies relate to each other and to conduct comparisons between them.2021, Hugo Engholm, “The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus”, in University of Uppsala, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022, page 29:
- Synonyms
- pre-war