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war-time

war-time is the alternative spelling of wartime.

Meaning of wartime

Noun

wartime (countable and uncountable, plural wartimes)

  1. (attributive, often) A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
    • But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.2002 April 29, Norman Pearlstine, “A Month Of Mondays If that doesn't give you the blues, nothing will. Norman Pearlstine ranks his favorite versions of the classic "Stormy Monday Blues"--one for...

Forms of war-time

pluralwar-times

Questions about war-time

What is war-time the alternative spelling of?
War-time is the alternative spelling of wartime.

Words near war-time in the dictionary

  1. war-ridden
  2. war-room
  3. war-rooms
  4. war-steamer
  5. war-steamers
  6. war-time
  7. war-torn
  8. war-wearier
  9. war-weariest
  10. war-weariness
  11. war-weary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: war-time (page history and authors); wartime (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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