postwar

postwar

See also: post-war

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English war
English postwar

    From post- + war.

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    Adjective

    postwar (not comparable)

    1. Alternative spelling of post-war.
      • 2012 February 11, Stephanie Coontz, “The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
        Men in the postwar period were threatened by the thought of a woman with more or even as much education as they had.
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