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interwar en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈɪn.tə.wɔ(ː)/ (British, Southern, Standard)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *wers-der. Proto-Germanic *werzaną Proto-West Germanic *werʀan Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Germanic *-ō Proto-West Germanic *-u Frankish *werʀubor. Early Medieval Latin werra Old Northern French guerreder. Old English werre Middle English werre English war English interwar From inter- + war.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) During or relating to the period of time between two wars, especially the two World Wars (1919–1939).
   • Stenfeldt’s research on Nils Flyg’s and Sven Olov Lindholm’s transition from far-left to the far-right and vice versa during the interwar years is a great example of how Freeden’s morphology of ideologies can be used to not only study ideologies of the far-right, but also to study how ideologies relate to each other and to conduct comparisons between them. 2021, Hugo Engholm, “The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus”, in University of Uppsala, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022, page 29:
   • His family emigrated to America in the interwar years.
   • One sample menu from the interwar period includes cream cheese and pimento sandwiches, buttered crumpets, coffee éclairs, chocolate sponge roll, buttered date and walnut loaf, maid-of-honor tarts, and queen cakes. 2019, Julia Skinner, “The Empire and the Teacup”, in Afternoon Tea: A History, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 54:
   • But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia. 1995, John Frank Williams, The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939, page 219:

Forms

Coordinates

pre-war · post-war

Synonyms

interbellum (between any two wars) · pre-war (between the World Wars, prior to World War II)

Translations (27)

ja 戦間期 (relating to the time between two wars) · ru межвое́нный (relating to the time between two wars) · pt entreguerras (relating to the time between two wars) · de Zwischenkriegszeit (relating to the time between two wars) · uk міжвоє́нний (relating to the time between two wars) · et sõdadevaheline (relating to the time between two wars) · da mellemkrigs- (relating to the time between two wars) · fr de l'entre-deux-guerres (relating to the time between two wars) · ka ომთაშორისი (relating to the time between two wars) · ko 전간기 (relating to the time between two wars) · fi sotien välinen (relating to the time between two wars) · es periodo de entreguerras (relating to the time between two wars) · de Zwischenkriegs- (relating to the time between two wars) · it periodo interbellico (relating to the time between two wars) · ca entreguerres (relating to the time between two wars) · hu két háború közötti (relating to the time between two wars) · ro interbelic (relating to the time between two wars) · lt tarpukaris (relating to the time between two wars) · sv mellankrigs- (relating to the time between two wars) · cmn 間戰期 /间战期 (relating to the time between two wars) · pl międzywojenny (relating to the time between two wars) · be міжвае́нны (relating to the time between two wars) · cmn 戰間期 /战间期 (relating to the time between two wars) · cs meziválečný (relating to the time between two wars) · lv starpkaru periods (relating to the time between two wars) · de zwischenkrieglich (relating to the time between two wars) · el μεσοπολεμικός (relating to the time between two wars)