Meanings
alternative postwar
- Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.
- not comparableAfter the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
- not comparableAfter 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 20151 more example
[...] 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 & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*pós
- Proto-Indo-European*pósti
- Proto-Italic*posti
- Old Latinposte
- Latinpost
- Englishpost-
- Proto-Indo-European*wers-
- Proto-Germanic*werzaną
- Proto-West Germanic*werʀan
- Frankish*werʀ
- Early Medieval Latinwerra
- Old Northern Frenchguerre
- Old Englishwerre
- Middle Englishwerre
- Englishwar
- Englishpost-war
Translations
Catalan postguerra
- postguerrapertaining to a period following the end of a war
Chinese Mandarin 戰後的 /战后的
- 戰後的 /战后的 (zhànhòude)pertaining to a period following the end of a war
Czech poválečný
- poválečnýpertaining to a period following the end of a war
Dutch naoorlogs
- naoorlogspertaining to a period following the end of a war
Finnish sodanjälkeinen
- sodanjälkeinenpertaining to a period following the end of a war
French après-guerre
- après-guerrepertaining to a period following the end of a war
German Nachkriegs-, nachkrieglich
- Nachkriegs-pertaining to a period following the end of a war
- nachkrieglichpertaining to a period following the end of a war
Hindi युद्धोत्तर
- युद्धोत्तर (yuddhottar)pertaining to a period following the end of a war
Hungarian háború utáni
- háború utánipertaining to a period following the end of a war
Indonesian pascaperang, purnayuda
- pascaperangpertaining to a period following the end of a war
- purnayudapertaining to a period following the end of a war
Italian postbellico, dopoguerra
- postbellicopertaining to a period following the end of a war
- dopoguerrapertaining to a period following the end of a war
Japanese 戦後の
- 戦後のpertaining to a period following the end of a war
Latvian pēckara
- pēckarapertaining to a period following the end of a war
Polish powojenny
- powojennypertaining to a period following the end of a war
Portuguese pós-bélico
- pós-bélicopertaining to a period following the end of a war
Russian послевое́нный
- послевое́нный (poslevojénnyj)pertaining to a period following the end of a war
Slovak povojnový
- povojnovýpertaining to a period following the end of a war
Swedish efterkrigs-
- efterkrigs-pertaining to a period following the end of a war
Tagalog pagka-digma
- pagka-digmapertaining to a period following the end of a war
Ukrainian післявоє́нний, повоє́нний
- післявоє́нний (pisljavojénnyj)pertaining to a period following the end of a war
- повоє́нний (povojénnyj)pertaining to a period following the end of a war
Cite this entry
post-war. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/post-war
“post-war.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/post-war. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “post-war,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/post-war.
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