"pre-war" meaning in English

See pre-war in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: En-us-pre-war.oga Forms: prewar [alternative]
Etymology: From pre- + war. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pre|war}} pre- + war Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} pre-war (not comparable)
  1. Before a war.
    Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
    Tags: not-comparable
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  2. Before a war.
    Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
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  3. Before a war.
    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.
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  4. Before a war.
    Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
    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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  5. Before a war. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-pre-war-en-adj-hvB~CEKm
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: antebellum Coordinate_terms: interwar Translations (Before a war): давае́нны (davajénny) (Belarusian), перадвае́нны (pjeradvajénny) (Belarusian), předválečný (Czech), d’avant-guerre (French), ომამდელი (omamdeli) (Georgian), Vorkriegs- (German), vorkrieglich (German), háború előtti (Hungarian), prebellico (Italian), antebellico (Italian), pirmskara (Latvian), abansguèrra (Occitan), prebellic (Occitan), antebellic (Occitan), przedwojenny [masculine] (Polish), довое́нный (dovojénnyj) (Russian), предвое́нный (predvojénnyj) (Russian), predratni [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), predvojnový (Slovak), dipa-digma (Tagalog), довоє́нний (dovojénnyj) (Ukrainian), передвоє́нний (peredvojénnyj) (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'Before a war': 20 20 20 20 20

Alternative forms

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      "word": "ომამდელი"
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      "word": "háború előtti"
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      "word": "prebellico"
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      "sense": "Before a war",
      "word": "pirmskara"
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      "sense": "Before a war",
      "word": "abansguèrra"
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