Associations to the word «Prewar»

Wiktionary

PREWAR, adjective. Prior to hostilities; in the time before the war; often, before the most recent significant war.

Dictionary definition

PREWAR, adjective. Existing or belonging to a time before a war; "prewar levels of industrial production".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats