prewar
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4.3
- adjective
- /ˈpriˌwɔr/
:
prebélico
- From their prewar wardrobes, they relinquished the fantasy of their Schiaparelli or the grandeur of their Balenciagas.
- prewar period
- prewar territory
- return to prewar
Examples
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With the cessation of hostilities, the number of pilgrims has begun to rebound to prewar levels.
Academic text (1997) -
Germany thus relinquished claims to 114,549 square kilometers of prewar territory east of the Oder and Neisse rivers.
Academic text (1991) -
And I guess that's why we seem to have a prewar way of life here.
Fiction book (1992) -
The French female in the prewar period was always the young, attractive Marianne.
Academic text (2008) -
Amid these dandy images of prewar San Francisco, two photographs captured my attention.
Academic text (2012) -
Under the previous regime, such institutions were a pale shadow of their prewar selves.
Academic text (1991) -
Like all other prewar economic associations, the CCIAB was adversely affected by the war.
Academic text (2000) -
Obviously, many prewar militia officers were simply too old or unsuited to the demands of wartime.
Academic text (1995) -
22-year-old Ellie examines it, then looks up in apprehension at the old prewar Spanish structure of Cal Tech.
Fiction book (1997) -
The museum has a fascinating collection of prewar artifacts that showcase everyday life before World War II.
Synonyms
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9.9
Relating to the time before a war, especially the American Civil War
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word prewar is made of the prefix pre- meaning 'before' and the word war, so it simply means something that existed or happened before a particular war. That's why we talk about prewar buildings or prewar years to mean they are from the time just before, often before World War I or World War II.