postwar

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A form of post-war — After the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.

Opposite
prewar
OriginEnglish war ← Middle English werre ← Old English werre →
Less commonScrabble 12
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Meanings

adjectivepostwar (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of post-war.

    Men in the postwar period were threatened by the thought of a woman with more or even as much education as they had.

    2012 November 2, Stephanie Coontz, “The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.”, in The New York Times

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivebelonging to the period after a war

Opposite
prewar

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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. Englishpostwar

From post- + war.

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Cite this entry
APA

postwar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postwar

MLA

“postwar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postwar. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postwar,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postwar.

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