Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Belonging to the period after a war.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
post-war . of or pertaining to theperiod after awar
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective belonging to the period after a war
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Examples
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It also makes The Subterrraneans itself an important text both in postwar American fiction and American literature as a whole.
Kerouac the Writer 2009
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It also makes The Subterrraneans itself an important text both in postwar American fiction and American literature as a whole.
Style in Fiction 2009
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The lyric by Enrique Santos Discepolo, master composer of the tango, sums up the situation here just as it did in postwar Buenos Aires:
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This is a fine book, but it is far from the only "carnivalesque" novel to be found in postwar fiction.
Comedy in Literature 2010
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“The rise of the creative-writing program,” he says, “stands as the most important event in postwar American literary history.”
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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.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review Philip French 2010
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In 1947, they began collecting clothes for children in postwar Europe.
'Trick-Or-Treat For UNICEF' Founder Dies At 93 Erica Liepmann 2010
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In 1947, they began collecting clothes for children in postwar Europe.
'Trick-Or-Treat For UNICEF' Founder Dies At 93 Erica Liepmann 2010
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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.
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“The rise of the creative-writing program,” he says, “stands as the most important event in postwar American literary history.”
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