POSTWAR vs WAR: NOUN
- N/A
- A state of active opposition, hostility, or contest: as, to be at war (that is, engaged in active hostilities).
- A contest beween nations or states (international war), or between parties in the same state (civil war), carried on by force of arms.
- A concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
- The waging of armed conflict against an enemy
- An active struggle between competing entities
- A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
- A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.
- The period of such conflict.
- The techniques and procedures of war; military science.
- A condition of active antagonism or contention.
- A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious.
- Any kind of contest or conflict; contention; strife: as, a wordy war.
- A dance among savages preliminary to going to war. Among the North American Indians, it is begun by some distinguished chief, and whoever joins in it thereby enlists as one of the party engaged in a warlike excursion.
- A cry or signal used in war.
- A war between independent sovereign states.
- See in the Vocabulary.
- See under Holy.
- A war between different sections or parties of the same country or nation.
- A state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
- Forces; army.
- Instruments of war.
- A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
- A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
- 298–290 b. c., ending in the triumph of Rome.
- 326–304 b. c.
- 343–341 b. c.
- Of 1877–8, between Russia and its allies (Rumania, etc.) and Turkey, resulting in the defeat of Turkey and the reconstruction of southeastern Europe.
- Of 1853–6 (see Crimean);
- Of 1828–9, ending in the defeat of Turkey;
- In United States history, the war of secession. See secession.
- In English history, the war of the great rebellion. See rebellion.
- Specifically— In Roman history, the war between Sulla and Marius (commencing 88 b. c.) or that between Pompey and Cæsar (commencing 49 b. c.)
- Warlike outfit.
- Forces; army. Compare battle.
- The profession of arms; the art of war.
POSTWAR vs WAR: ADJECTIVE
- Belonging to the period after a war
- Alternative spelling of post-war. of or pertaining to the period after a war
- Ware; aware.
POSTWAR vs WAR: VERB
- N/A
- Make or wage war
POSTWAR vs WAR: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To wage or carry on warfare.
- To be in a state of hostility or rivalry; contend.
- To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
- To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
POSTWAR vs WAR: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To make war upon; to fight.
- To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
POSTWAR vs WAR: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- To carry on, as a contest.
- To make war upon; oppose, as in war; contend against.
- To contend; strive violently; be in a state of opposition.
- To make or carry on war; carry on hostilities; fight.
- A Middle English form of were.
- Same as worse.
- A Middle English form of ware.
- To defeat; worst.
- (idiom) (at war) In an active state of conflict or contention.
POSTWAR vs WAR: RELATED WORDS
- Antebellum, Yugoslav, Military, Meiji, Communist, Wehrmacht, Colonial, Postmodern, Postbellum, Modernist, Prewar, Wartime, Post war, Aftermath, War
- Combat, Antiwar, Warmongering, Postwar, Iraq, Battlefield, Wwi, Battlefields, Wwii, Wartime, Hostilities, Conflict, Invasion, State of war, Warfare
POSTWAR vs WAR: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Antebellum, Yugoslav, Military, Meiji, Communist, Wehrmacht, Colonial, Postmodern, Postbellum, Modernist, Prewar, Wartime, Post war, Aftermath, War
- Battle, Military, Combat, Antiwar, Warmongering, Postwar, Iraq, Battlefield, Wwi, Wwii, Wartime, Hostilities, Conflict, Invasion, Warfare
POSTWAR vs WAR: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Postwar Reconstruction in Ammed Services Committee now, pr.
- The postwar literature on externalities: an interpretive essay.
- Legacies of Antifascism: Constructing Democracy in Postwar Europe.
- Russia have been strained throughout the postwar period.
- Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subculture in Postwar Britain.
- France was intended to sustain the postwar settlement.
- Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture.
- Lack of Postwar Campaign Plan United States military commanders did not plan for postwar Iraq.
- Postwar The Japanese growth in the postwar period was often called a "miracle".
- Postwar Adjustments and Times Postwar military life was different.
- Higher revenues during World War II were offset by the costs of overworking their stock to meet war needs.
- In Summoners War, you play as a summoner war hack whose main goal is to be the best.
- Afghanistan and Iraq, Muslims almost universally have seen the war against terrorism as a war on Islam.
- Defining what war is requires determining the entities that are allowed to begin and engage in war.
- The highest levels of depression were among war veterans who served in more than one war.
- As with any war, there were those who opposed American involvement in the war.
- Is the War on Drugs a declared war?
- American Thought: Civil War to World War I, ed.
- Even in the midst of war, whether a civil war or a world war, presidential terms last exactly four years.
- These record soldiers in every war from the Revolutionary War until World War II.
POSTWAR vs WAR: QUESTIONS
- How did Gropius advance his career in the postwar period?
- Who is your favorite interior designer of the postwar era?
- Is Natalia Ginzburg the most important writer of postwar Italy?
- What was the most famous American postwar suburban development?
- What was the postwar international monetary system based on?
- What did postwar von Neumann do for Computer Science?
- Is there embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order?
- What is the significance of suburbia in postwar America?
- Why did inequality debates revive in postwar Japan?
- Who coined Germany's most ubiquitous postwar slogan?
- How close was the world to nuclear war during the Cold War?
- Who were the war hawks and why did they want to go to war?
- What did the National War Labor Board do in World War 1?
- How did the First World War change traditional attitudes toward war?
- Did any World War 2 veterans serve in the Korean War?
- Did Lincoln declare a state of war during the Civil War?
- Is the Peloponnesian War an example of war between democracies?
- Who called the Spanish American War a splendid little war?
- Why is the war in Afghanistan considered an illegal war?
- How was World War 1 different than any previous war?