post-war

adjective

After the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.

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adjectivepost-war (not comparable)

alternative postwar

  1. Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.
    1. not comparableAfter the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
    2. 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 2015
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      [...] 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

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*wers-
  8. Proto-Germanic*werzaną
  9. Proto-West Germanic*werʀan
  10. Frankish*werʀ
  11. Early Medieval Latinwerra
  12. Old Northern Frenchguerre
  13. Old Englishwerre
  14. Middle Englishwerre
  15. Englishwar
  16. Englishpost-war

From post- + war.

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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
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APA

post-war. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/post-war

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“post-war.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/post-war. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “post-war,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/post-war.

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