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interwar

interwar

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Relating to the time between World War I and World War II
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntərˈwɔr/
: de entreguerras
  • The history of Southeastern Europe in the interwar period highlights the League of Nations' predicament.
  • interwar period
  • interwar years
  • interwar Europe

What we're going to try to do today is get into interwar Poland, and in particular interwar Poland's Ukrainian question.

Examples

  • His claims of influence over interwar British military policymakers and military figures have been challenged.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The interwar years saw significant cultural changes, influencing art and literature around the world.

  • The failure of the interwar system played a significant role in creating the Great Depression.

    Academic text (2012)

  • At the root of many of the problems of the interwar years was a malfunctioning global financial system.

    Academic text (2011)

  • How did tourism reflect and refract ideas of empire, particularly in the interwar years?

    Academic text (1994)

  • In contrast, innovative activities that took place during the depressed interwar period were much more limited in scope and intensity.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Eighty years later, circumstances have become disturbingly similar to the interwar period.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Throughout the interwar period their security was precarious, their internal peace shaky.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The Polish Singers Alliance recovered and prospered in the interwar years.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The German minority constituted some 22 percent of the Czech population in the interwar period and was relatively prosperous.

    Academic text (2001)

Surface Forms

interwar positive

Morphology

interwar = war (transparent) = inter + war

Formed by the productive prefix 'inter-' meaning 'between' plus the noun 'war', so the meaning 'between wars' is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word interwar combines the prefix inter- meaning 'between' and war meaning 'war', the same inter- you see in international or internet. So interwar describes something that is 'between wars', especially the years between World War I and World War II.