pre-war
adjUK /pɹiːˈwɔː/ · US /pɹiˈwɔɹ/
Etymology From pre- + war.
› Before a war.
1
Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
2
Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
3
Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
- The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34:
› Before a war. › Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
4
Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940.
5
Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.
- Synonyms
- antebellum
- Antonyms
- post-war
- Coordinate terms
- interwar