Interwar

Quick meaning: Interwar is an adjective meaning During or relating to the period of time between two wars, especially the two World Wars (1919–1939).

Meaning

During or relating to the period of time between two wars, especially the two World Wars (1919–1939).

Example Sentences

His family emigrated to America in the interwar years.

One sample menu from the interwar period includes cream cheese and pimento sandwiches, buttered crumpets, coffee éclairs, chocolate sponge roll, buttered date and walnut loaf, maid-of-honor tarts, and queen cakes.

But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.

Stenfeldt’s research on Nils Flyg’s and Sven Olov Lindholm’s transition from far-left to the far-right and vice versa during the interwar years is a great example of how Freeden’s morphology of ideologies can be used to not only study ideologies of the far-right, but also to study how ideologies relate to each other and to conduct comparisons between them.

Word Forms

• inter-war

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inter-war, interbellic, interbelline, interimperial, interbelligerent, interregnal.

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