postwar en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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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-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 postwar From post- + war.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative spelling of post-war.
alt of post-war
Men in the postwar period were threatened by the thought of a woman with more or even as much education as they had.
2012 November 2, Stephanie Coontz, “The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.”, in The New York Times: