interwar

[in-ter-wawr]

adjective

1. occurring during a period of peace between two wars, war, especially between World War I and World War II.

interwar

/ ˌɪntəˈwɔː /

adjective

1. of or happening in the period between World War I and World War II

Word History and Origins

Origin of interwar¹

First recorded in 1935–40; inter- + war ¹

Example Sentences

“Consider the Consequences” is a breezy, ironic tramp through the social rituals of the interwar period.

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That is why I think it wise to think of Nazism and fascism as terms referring to specific European movements that grew out of the twentieth-century interwar period in Germany, Italy and Spain.”

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There are two powerful renditions, from 1943 and 1945, of what was regarded as the greatest of all art songs of the interwar era, Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Ol’ Man River.”

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“The Childhood of a Leader” was about the interwar period between the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and the Second World War.

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And in one very important respect, Trump differed sharply from the European fascists of the interwar period.

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