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Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.
Martin Jacques

Meaning of "interwar" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INTERWAR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INTERWAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Interwar is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INTERWAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

interwar

Interwar period

The terms interwar period and interbellum nearly always refer to the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II—the period beginning with the Armistice with Germany that concluded World War I in 1918 and the following Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and ending in 1939 with the Invasion of Poland and the start of World War II.

Definition of interwar in the English dictionary

The definition of interwar in the dictionary is of or happening in the period between World War I and World War II.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INTERWAR


antiwar
ˌæntɪˈwɔː
awa´
əˈwɔː
cyberwar
ˈsaɪbəˌwɔː
jowar
dʒəˈwɔː
men-of-war
ˌmenəˈwɔː
nonwar
ˈnɒnˈwɔː
outwar
aʊtˈwɔː
outwore
aʊtˈwɔː
prewar
ˌpriːˈwɔː
prowar
ˈprəʊˈwɔː
psywar
ˈsaɪˌwɔː
squaw
skwɔː
swore
swɔː
twa
twɔː
war
wɔː
Waugh
wɔː
waw
wɔː
wha
hwɔː
wore
wɔː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTERWAR

interview
interviewee
interviewer
intervillage
intervisibility
intervisible
intervisitation
intervital
intervocalic
intervolve
interweave
interweaving
interweb
interwind
interwork
interworking
interwove
interwoven
interwreathe
interwrought

WORDS THAT END LIKE INTERWAR

Bhubaneswar
civil war
cold war
council of war
Dewar
flame war
guerrilla war
holy war
Medawar
opium war
Peshawar
post-war
prisoner of war
shalwar
sloop of war
sowar
theatre of war
trade war
tug-of-war
turf war

Synonyms and antonyms of interwar in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «interwar» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INTERWAR

Find out the translation of interwar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of interwar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «interwar» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

两次世界大战
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

entreguerras
570 millions of speakers

English

interwar
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

युद्ध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ما بين الحربين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

межвоенный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

entre guerras
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

interwar
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

deux-guerres
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Interwar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zwischen den Weltkriegen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

両大戦間の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

간기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Interwar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giữa hai cuộc chiến
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர்களுக்கிடையிலான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंतराने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

savaşlar arası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tra le due guerre
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

międzywojenny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

міжвоєнний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

interbelică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεσοπολέμου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Interbellum
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

interwar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

krigs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of interwar

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INTERWAR»

The term «interwar» is regularly used and occupies the 98.736 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INTERWAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about interwar

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QUOTES WITH «INTERWAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word interwar.
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Martin Jacques
Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTERWAR»

Discover the use of interwar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to interwar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
The comparative essays investigate how and why innovation occurred or did not occur, and explain much of the strategic and operative performance of the Axis and Allies in World War II. The essays focus on several instances of how military ...
Williamson R. Murray, Allan R. Millett, 1998
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Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe
Winner, Best Book on European Politics, European Politics and Society Section, American Political Science Association A comprehensive and thoughtful historical analysis of the democracies of interwar Europe, Defending Democracy provides a ...
Giovanni Capoccia, 2005
3
Interwar Vienna: Culture Between Tradition and Modernity
This volume of new essays widens the spectrum, stretching disciplinary boundaries to consider the cultural, social, and historical movements that shaped the city.
Deborah Holmes, Lisa Silverman, 2009
4
Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in ...
Throughout the work she challenges these interpretations, particularly regarding the postwar understanding of Realism, which forms the basis of core assumptions in international relations theory.The Realist account labels support for ...
Cecelia Lynch, 2007
5
Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities
Paula Birnbaum's study explores how FAM artists including Suzanne Valadon, Marie Laurencin, and Tamara de Lempicka, approached the self-portrait, motherhood and the female nude, as well as their response to marginalization and the ...
Paula Birnbaum, 2011
6
Italian Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period, 1918-1940
Details Italian diplomacy in the interim period between the two world wars.
H. James Burgwyn, 1997
7
Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young
This book provides an analytical model for reading a large body of modernist works by women.
Chiara Briganti, Kathy Mezei, 2006
8
Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in ...
In that intersection, the stories that inspired Goddard and others became a recognizable genre: science fiction.
John Cheng, 2012
9
The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in ...
DIVA study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II./div "Barbara Sato has produced a superb book on the construction of a new women's culture in Japan in the interwar period.
Barbara Sato, 2003
10
United States Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period, ...
Rhodes praises Cordell Hull as the outstanding secretary of state of the time, whose judgment was often more on target than others in the State Department and the executive branch.
Benjamin D. Rhodes, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTERWAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term interwar is used in the context of the following news items.
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The aerotropolis of Heathrow is being built for airheads - FT.com
Former manufacturing districts such as Hayes on the M4 corridor — once home to EMI and a host of high-tech interwar businesses — now have ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
5 Most Powerful Air Forces of All Time | The National Interest
Naval aviation grew substantially in the interwar period, taking advantage of the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty to build or convert ... «The National Interest Online, Jul 15»
3
UK and Romanian credit unions share knowledge
The movement was one of the most advanced in the world during the interwar period but, after the communist regime came to power in 1948, ... «Co-operative News, Jul 15»
4
Is Donald Trump a Fascist? - Newsweek
His speech was like an interwar séance of once-powerful dictators who inspired multitudes, drove countries into the ground and died grim ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
5
DVIDS - News - Whatever it takes: Marine Medium Tiltrotor …
During the interwar years after Vietnam, HMM-165 found itself deploying with the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit multiple times. Their missions ... «DVIDS, Jul 15»
6
Thomas Meaney on F. Scott Fitzgerald
To the Franco-Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, it was the opposite of this predicament that made Fitzgerald an emblematic case of interwar ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
7
Berlin Saves the Communist-Era Buildings of Alexanderplatz
The spirit of international interwar modernism could at a push be presented as embodying this spirit, and it could be found both in the deco ... «CityLab, Jul 15»
8
Omar G. Encarnación | Why Spain Has Fared Better than Greece
It is a political science maxim rooted in the horrors of Germany's interwar years that hard economic times are a breeding ground for extremism, ... «Foreign Affairs, Jul 15»
9
Just when you thought the Army had its shit together, it …
Frankly, I would be happy to subject today's students to the curriculum that Eisenhower, Bradley, and their peers studied in the interwar period. «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
10
UCLA's Michael Casper Granted Prestigious Fellowship at Center …
Casper will use his new position to conduct original research on Jewish politics and culture in interwar Lithuania for a period of ten months. «Westside Today, Jul 15»

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