post-war en · ADJ
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- 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 post-war From post- + war.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict. ▸ After the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict. ▸ After the end of World War II in 1945.
[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.
2014 October 26, Jeff Howell, “Is the Japanese knotweed threat exaggerated? Our troubleshooter calls for calm about Japanese knotweed in the garden – and moss on the roof [print version: Don't panic about an overhyped invasion, 25 October 2014, p. P13]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), archived from the original on 21 Jan 2015:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| postwar | alternative | lexicographic |
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be паслявае́нны (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · sk povojnový (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · cmn 戰後的 /战后的 (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · de Nachkriegs- (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · lv pēckara (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · it dopoguerra (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · nl naoorlogs (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · ca postguerra (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · hu háború utáni (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · pt pós-bélico (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · uk післявоє́нний (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · sv efterkrigs- (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · de nachkrieglich (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · uk повоє́нний (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · fr après-guerre (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · id pascaperang (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · hi युद्धोत्तर (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · it postbellico (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · id purnayuda (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · ru послевое́нный (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · ja 戦後の (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · fi sodanjälkeinen (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · pl powojenny (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · sh poratni (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · ka ომისშემდგომი (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · tl pagka-digma (pertaining to a period following the end of a war) · cs poválečný (pertaining to a period following the end of a war)