prewar

Adjective

Meaning

existing or belonging to a time before a war

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Synonyms

federalist interior colonial antebellum antemundane pre-war pre-civil war early nineteenth-century belonging to a period before a war existing before a particular war occurring before a war ante-bellum belonging to the period before a war happening before the second world war occurring before the second world war

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Antonyms

postwar post-war after the war post-bellum belonging to the period after a war occurring after a war

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Anagrams

warper rewrap

Examples

What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science. Buckminster Fuller

The literary James Bond is a creation of prewar London club-land: upper-crust, snobbish, manipulative and cruel in his relationships with women, with a thinly veiled sadomasochistic streak and a coldly ruthless attitude to his opponents that verges on the psychopathic. Charles Stross

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them. W. Averell Harriman

prewar levels of industrial production Source: Internet

A 625-square-foot prewar co-op, with inlaid hardwood floors, a living room with built-in bookshelves and a windowed eat-in kitchen, in a non-doorman walk-up limestone rowhouse. Source: Internet

Also, throughout the war, the BIS accepted gold from the German Reichsbank in payment for prewar obligations linked to the Young Plan. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Prew prewait prewandering prewarm prewarmed prewarn