Definition of "postwar" []

• Belonging to the period after a war: postwar resettlement; a postwar house. (adjective)

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• "In 1947, they began collecting clothes for children in postwar Europe."
• "Both The Angel's Game and Shadow of the Wind are translated into English by Lucia Graves (daughter of poet and I, Claudius author Robert Graves); who was raised on the island of Majorca in postwar Spain."
• "It was a part that captured a peculiarly repellent side of the Reagan-Thatcher era and it rightly brought Michael Douglas an Oscar for outdoing the hyperactive villains his father, Kirk, played in postwar melodramas."