post-war
adjEtymology From post- + war.
› Pertaining to a period of time immediately…
1
After the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
2
After the end of World War II in 1945.
- Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.2014 October 26, Jeff Howell, “Is the Japanese knotweed threat exaggerated? Our troubleshooter calls for calm about Japanese knotweed in the garden – and moss on the roof [print version: Don't panic about an overhyped invasion, 25 October 2014, p. P13]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), archived from the original on 21 Jan 2015:
- [...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
- Synonyms
- postbellum
- Antonyms
- pre-war, antebellum
- Coordinate terms
- interwar