Meanings
alternative inter-war
- not comparableDuring 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.
3 more examples
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 219One 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 54Stenfeldt’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 29Synonyms: interbellum, pre-war
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveDuring or relating to the period of time between two wars, especially the two World Wars (1919–1939).
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
- Proto-Italic*n̥ter
- Latininter
- Latininter-
- Englishinter-
- Proto-Indo-European*wers-
- Proto-Germanic*werzaną
- Proto-West Germanic*werʀan
- Frankish*werʀ
- Early Medieval Latinwerra
- Old Northern Frenchguerre
- Old Englishwerre
- Middle Englishwerre
- Englishwar
- Englishinterwar
Translations
Catalan entreguerres
- entreguerresrelating to the time between two wars
Chinese Mandarin 戰間期 /战间期, 間戰期 /间战期
- 戰間期 /战间期 (zhànjiānqī)relating to the time between two wars
- 間戰期 /间战期 (jiānzhànqī)relating to the time between two wars
Czech meziválečný
- meziválečnýrelating to the time between two wars
Danish mellemkrigs-
- mellemkrigs-relating to the time between two wars
Estonian sõdadevaheline
- sõdadevahelinerelating to the time between two wars
Finnish sotien välinen
- sotien välinenrelating to the time between two wars
French de l'entre-deux-guerres
- de l'entre-deux-guerresrelating to the time between two wars
German Zwischenkriegs-, zwischenkrieglich
- Zwischenkriegs-relating to the time between two wars
- zwischenkrieglichrelating to the time between two wars
- Zwischenkriegszeitrelating to the time between two wars
Greek μεσοπολεμικός
- μεσοπολεμικός (mesopolemikós)relating to the time between two wars
Hungarian két háború közötti
- két háború közöttirelating to the time between two wars
Italian periodo interbellico
- periodo interbellicorelating to the time between two wars
Japanese 戦間期
- 戦間期 (senkanki)relating to the time between two wars
Korean 전간기
- 전간기 (jeon'gan'gi)relating to the time between two wars
Latvian starpkaru periods
- starpkaru periodsrelating to the time between two wars
Lithuanian tarpukaris
- tarpukarisrelating to the time between two wars
Polish międzywojenny
- międzywojennyrelating to the time between two wars
Portuguese entreguerras
- entreguerrasrelating to the time between two wars
Romanian interbelic
- interbelicrelating to the time between two wars
Russian межвое́нный
- межвое́нный (mežvojénnyj)relating to the time between two wars
Spanish periodo de entreguerras
- periodo de entreguerrasrelating to the time between two wars
Swedish mellankrigs-
- mellankrigs-relating to the time between two wars
Ukrainian міжвоє́нний
- міжвоє́нний (mižvojénnyj)relating to the time between two wars
Cite this entry
interwar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interwar
“interwar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interwar. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interwar,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interwar.
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