post-war

Definition

Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.

Etymology

From post- + war.

Example Sentences

• "Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth."
• "[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain."