pre-war
UK/pɹiːˈwɔː//pɹiˈwɔɹ/
pre-war adjective: before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
Adjective
pre-war (not comparable)
- Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
- Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
- Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
- The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34
- Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940.
- Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.
pre-war meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Tagalog
pre-war in Tamil
- போருக்கு முந்திய
pre-war in Kannada
- ಯುದ್ಧಪೂರ್ವ, ಯುದ್ಧಕ್ಕೆ ಹಿಂದಿನ
pre-war in Tagalog
- Before a war
- dipa-digma
Synonyms of pre-war
Antonyms
Forms of pre-war
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Origin of pre-war
From pre- + war.
Questions about pre-war
- What does pre-war mean?
- Pre-war means before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
- What is pre-war in Tamil?
- Pre-war in Tamil is போருக்கு முந்திய. See Pre-war meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is pre-war?
- Pre-war is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce pre-war?
- Pre-war is pronounced /pɹiːˈwɔː/ (UK).
Words near pre-war in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-war (page history and authors); pre-war (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pre-war (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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