interwar
During or relating to the period of time between two wars, especially the two World Wars (1919–1939).
Adjective
- During or relating to the period of time between two wars, especially the two World Wars (1919–1939).
- His family emigrated to America in the interwar years.
- But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still...
- One sample menu from the interwar period includes cream cheese and pimento sandwiches, buttered crumpets, coffee éclairs, chocolate sponge roll, buttered date and walnut loaf, maid-of-honor tarts, and queen cakes. -...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English war English interwar From inter- + war.