war baby
Americannoun
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a child born or conceived in wartime.
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an illegitimate child born in wartime of a parent in the armed forces.
noun
Etymology
Origin of war baby
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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"I was a war baby so I can remember incendiary bombs dropping on me and we'd have to shelter under the stairs. So the Second World War to me was apocalyptic".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
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 ● Feb. 27, 2021
Carmelita and her husband’s French war baby is a blonde named Fifi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2020
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 ● Aug. 18, 2020
I sent my maid away as a public duty; and now she has married a soldier and is expecting a war baby.
From The Inca of Perusalem by Bernard Shaw
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