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post-war

adjective

  1. pertaining to a period shortly after a war
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noun

  1. interval immediately after a war
L495930 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adj

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- English war English post-war From post- + war.

  1. Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.
  2. Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.

    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.

    [...] 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.