Definitions for postwar

postwar post·war

Spelling: [pohst-wawr]
IPA: /ˈpoʊstˈwɔr/

Postwar is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in postwar (aoprstw).

Definitions for postwar

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war:

Origin of postwar

First recorded in 1905-10; post- + war1

Examples for postwar

The postwar calls on the medical service of the department were very great.

He likes to talk about the long sweep of urban history, with the postwar suburb boom hollowing them out.

After the postwar disintegration of the British Empire, Scots curiously disassociated themselves with the period altogether.

Modern postwar pessimism, although a cult like any other, was persuasive, deceptively articulate.

Nonetheless, files continued to fill with damaging information as postwar debriefings proceeded.

These councils later became the basis of the postwar governmental structure.

Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.

But neither the danger of a postwar inflation nor of a subsequent collapse in production and employment is yet overcome.

Agriculture has not fully recovered from postwar depression.

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue (1996).

Word Value for postwar
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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