pre-war
See also: prewar
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pre-war (not comparable)
- Before a war.
- Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
- Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
- Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
- Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940.
- Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.
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With reference to the World Wars, pre-war (before the outbreak of World War I in 1914) is contrasted with interwar (between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939) and post-war (after the end of World War II in 1945), but is also used to refer to some period prior to the outbreak of World War II.
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Before a war
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- “pre-war”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- pre-war, prewar at Google Ngram Viewer