pre-war

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pre-war

/pɹiːˈwɔː/ UK
/pɹiˈwɔɹ/ US

adjective prewar

not comparable Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
not comparable Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
not comparable 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.
not comparable Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940.
not comparable Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.

Similar: antebellum · Opposite: post-war

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adjective

Similar: antebellum · Opposite: post-war

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adj Before a war

中文	戰前 /战前 zhànqián
Français	d'avant-guerre
Deutsch	Vorkriegs-, vorkrieglich
Italiano	prebellico, antebellico
Русский	довое́нный dovojénnyj, предвое́нный predvojénnyj

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@misc{pre_war_2026,
  title = {pre-war},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pre-war},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}