Meaning of pre-war | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Before a war.
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2. Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
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3. Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
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4. Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
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5. Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940.
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6. Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.
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Examples

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:prewar.”

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