postwar
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- adjective
- /ˈpoʊstwɔr/
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posbélico
- I can imagine my mother in a postwar cocktail dress at an after-hours Greenwich Village bar.
- postwar era
- postwar period
- postwar generation
Examples
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By contrast, the American share of world output has been halved during the postwar period.
Academic text (1990) -
The reconstruction of the city focused on modernizing its infrastructure during the postwar period.
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The goal was nothing less than to design the postwar international security and economic architecture.
Academic text (2011) -
General, I came over here to listen to your ideas on the rehabilitation of postwar Korea.
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Couldn't get a job in postwar Germany.
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He was educated during the postwar technological boom.
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We had two rooms plus a kitchen and bath in an unpretentiously ramshackle postwar apartment building.
Fiction book (1995) -
The bases for the stability and relative prosperity of the postwar era are crumbling.
Academic text (2011) -
From a political-military perspective, the postwar decades saw the emergence of United States hegemony.
Academic text (1990) -
The dramatic reduction in international support for labor organizing during postwar democratization has severely affected the Salvadoran labor movement.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
The period right after a war when a country changes
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Postwar is made of the parts post- meaning 'after' and war, so it means 'after a war'. Think of a city rebuilding its homes and people rebuilding their lives. That time is the postwar period.