English Explanatory Dictionary

pre-war

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/pɹiːˈwɔː/ /pɹiˈwɔɹ/ En-us-pre-war.oga

Word forms

pre-war prewar

Etymology

From pre- + war.

Synonyms

antebellum

Antonyms

post-war

Translations

Belarusian: давае́нны Belarusian: перадвае́нны Chinese Mandarin: 戰前 /战前 Czech: předválečný French: d'avant-guerre Georgian: ომამდელი German: Vorkriegs- German: vorkrieglich Hungarian: háború előtti Italian: prebellico Italian: antebellico Latvian: pirmskara Occitan: abansguèrra Occitan: prebellic Occitan: antebellic Polish: przedwojenny Russian: довое́нный Russian: предвое́нный Serbo-Croatian: predratni Slovak: predvojnový Tagalog: dipa-digma Ukrainian: довоє́нний Ukrainian: передвоє́нний
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