postwar

See also: post-war

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pós

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *pósti

Proto-Italic *posti

Old Latin poste

Latin post

English post-

Proto-Indo-European *wers-der.

Proto-Germanic *werzaną

Proto-West Germanic *werʀan

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Germanic *-ō

Proto-West Germanic *-u

Frankish *werʀubor.

Early Medieval Latin werra

Old Northern French guerreder.

Old English werre

Middle English werre

English war

English postwar

From post- + war.

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Adjective

postwar (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of post-war.
   • 2012 February 11, Stephanie Coontz, “The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 January 2026:

     Men in the postwar period were threatened by the thought of a woman with more or even as much education as they had.