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I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'
Cameron Mackintosh

Meaning of "war baby" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WAR BABY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAR BABY

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War baby is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAR BABY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

war baby

War children

A war child refers to a child born to a native parent and a parent belonging to a foreign military force. Having a child with a member of a belligerent forces, throughout history and across cultures, is often considered a grave betrayal of social values. Commonly, the native parent is disowned by family, friends, and society at large. The term "war child" is most commonly used for children born during World War II and its aftermath, although it is also relevant to other situations, such children born following the widespread rapes during the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities associated with the war of liberation. The discrimination suffered by the native parent and child often ignored widespread rapes by occupying forces, or the relationships women had to form in order to survive the war years. The following article has extensive coverage of issues in Norway during and after World War II.

Definition of war baby in the English dictionary

The definition of war baby in the dictionary is a child born in wartime, esp the illegitimate child of a soldier.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAR BABY

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WAR BABY

baby
Band-Aid baby
be left holding the baby
blue baby
boom baby
bushbaby
crybaby
designer baby
grandbaby
jelly baby
like taking candy from a baby
Plunket baby
rhesus baby
snowflake baby
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Synonyms and antonyms of war baby in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «war baby» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAR BABY

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

Translator English - Chinese

宝贝战争
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bebé guerra
570 millions of speakers

English

war baby
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

युद्ध बच्चे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

طفل الحرب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

война ребенка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bebê guerra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যুদ্ধ শিশু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

guerre bébé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bayi perang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Krieg Baby
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

戦争の赤ちゃん
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전쟁 아기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perang bayi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiến tranh bé
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர் குழந்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

युद्ध बेबी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Savaş bebeği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bambino guerra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dziecko wojny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

війна дитини
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

copil război
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πόλεμο μωρό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorlog baba
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

krig bebis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

krig babyen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of war baby

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAR BABY»

The term «war baby» is regularly used and occupies the 65.131 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAR BABY» OVER TIME

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «WAR BABY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word war baby.
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Jon English
I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.
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Cameron Mackintosh
I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAR BABY»

Discover the use of war baby in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to war baby and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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War Baby/love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art
As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age in an era of "optional identity," this collection brings together first-person perspectives and a wider scholarly context to shed light on changing Asian ...
Laura Kina, Wei Ming Dariotis, 2013
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War, Baby: The Glamour of Violence
He knelt in his corner on one knee in submission. And he never got up. This is the story of what brought these two men together on the night of 25th February 1995 and how that night changed them forever.
Kevin Mitchell, 2011
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No Place for a War Baby: The Global Politics of Children ...
Donna Seto investigates why children born of wartime sexual violence are rarely included in post-conflict processes of reconciliation and recovery.
Dr Donna Seto, 2013
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The Woman and the War Baby
WAR. BABY. i was a three-day pass in san Francisco. Her only time on a train, Mom rode down, and she and i rode back. Hot Quonset hut; drunk sailors and their brides waited in line. skinny little tipsy Mom with Dad the Navy's middle- weight ...
Bill Ransom, 2008
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Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics ...
However, the war baby phenomenon really dealt with two categories of unwed mothers. Some used the term in reference to women who lived in nonmarital but often longstanding partnerships with men who joined the armed forces as a result  ...
Susan R. Grayzel, 1999
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Orpington 127 the Autobiography of a War Baby
The book is a personal memoir of life in a Britain that no longer exists .
Michael Proom, 2013
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War baby express
Midwest poet explores the painful links between militarism and family violence.
Roseann Lloyd, 1996
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A War Baby - Rags to Riches
An autobiography tracing the life of a baby boy that was born in to poverty in a back street area of Birmingham, just before the outbreak of World war II, who suffered with ill health during the early part of his life and had little ...
Tom Grainger, 2010
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"Daddy's Gone to War": The Second World War in the Lives of ...
... Arthur L. Rautman, haswritten thatin such wartime cases, “the family circle will then consist of the father,the mother,and the new baby,with no place for the war baby.” The warchild wouldbecome“an extrafamilial child.” Such children ...
William M. Tuttle, 1993
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The Transition to Motherhood in Japan: A Comparison with the ...
Much more rapid ageing in Japan than in the Netherlands The differences between Japan and the Netherlands as far as the post-war baby boom and post- war immigration are concerned lead to substantial differences in population structure ...
Hideko Matsuo, 2003

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAR BABY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term war baby is used in the context of the following news items.
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V-E Day war babies: 'I was a child of shame, a child of the enemy'
1 of 3 V-E Day: Army Air Corps veteran Bernard Dupuis waves as World War II era ... that he was just about the only one who didn't know he was a “war baby. «The Seattle Times, May 15»
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Court stops adoptive parents of tug-of-war baby Veronica from …
Brown is pushing for custody of the girl under the Indian Child Welfare Act. The court document comes after the biological father of the girl turned himself in to ... «Daily Mail, Aug 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. War baby [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/war-baby>. May 2024 ».
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