war baby

noun

1. a child born or conceived in wartime.

2. an illegitimate child born in wartime of a parent in the armed forces.

war baby

noun

1. a child born in wartime, esp the illegitimate child of a soldier

Word History and Origins

Origin of war baby¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Born on July 20, 1944, I'm a little "young" to remember him, though I was a war baby in an era when Congress still sometimes declared war before America made it.

From Salon

He was a war baby, born on Nov. 20, 1942, just as the British army was seizing the port of Benghazi from the Nazis in the North Africa campaign.

From Washington Post

I figured he and Frieda were what Big Ma called “war babies.”

From Literature

Their answer: baby boomers, war babies and people born in the 1930s.

From Washington Post

As a war baby, born in New York a month before Pearl Harbor, I sensed a world of danger in whispered conversations and screaming headlines I couldn’t read.

From New York Times