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Meaning of post-war | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.
    not-comparable
  2. After the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
    not-comparable
  3. After the end of World War II in 1945.
    not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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