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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word pre-war:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. pre-war: Merriam-Webster
  2. Pre-War, Pre-war, pre-war, pre-War: Wordnik
  3. pre-war: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. pre-war: Wiktionary
  5. Pre-war: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. pre-war: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pre-war: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Before a war.
adjective:  Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
adjective:  Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
adjective:  Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
adjective:  Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940.
adjective:  Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.

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