post-war

Adjective

post-war (not comparable)

1. After the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
2. After the end of World War II in 1945.
   • 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...
   • [...] 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