postwar
adjective
post·war ˈpōs(t)-ˌwär 
: occurring or existing after a war
especially : occurring or existing after World War II
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The current director, Christian Stückl, has worked at the professional theater in nearby Munich and, unlike some of the locals in the postwar decades, is sensitive to anti-Judaic inheritances. 
Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022 Queen Elizabeth II oversaw Britain’s struggle to define itself in the postwar era. Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2022 Although few paid much attention to the changes at the time, the new terminology caught the eye of one of the most influential and controversial British politicians of the postwar era, Enoch Powell. Tom Mctague, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022 The British Virgin Islands were a colonial relic; once a sugar-producing colony run on slave labor, by the postwar decades, the islands earned half their revenue from selling their decorative stamps. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2022 This gap, this useful fiction, could be maintained in the postwar decades as long as ordinary people, many with modest educations and modest aspirations, understood their lowly place in the hierarchy. James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022 Salvaging materials fell out of fashion in the booming postwar decades, Palmisano said. BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2021 In the class-conscious England of the postwar decades, millions of Britain’s expanding middle class sought to erase any trace of their proletarian origins, starting with their accents, which provided her with an abundance of work. New York Times, 16 Sep. 2021 Not until after the Holocaust, when the plight of Jewish refugees in postwar Europe became visible and Jewish settlers demonstrated power in Palestine, did American Jewish support for Israel reach a critical mass. Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022 See More
Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022 Queen Elizabeth II oversaw Britain’s struggle to define itself in the postwar era. Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2022 Although few paid much attention to the changes at the time, the new terminology caught the eye of one of the most influential and controversial British politicians of the postwar era, Enoch Powell. Tom Mctague, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022 The British Virgin Islands were a colonial relic; once a sugar-producing colony run on slave labor, by the postwar decades, the islands earned half their revenue from selling their decorative stamps. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2022 This gap, this useful fiction, could be maintained in the postwar decades as long as ordinary people, many with modest educations and modest aspirations, understood their lowly place in the hierarchy. James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022 Salvaging materials fell out of fashion in the booming postwar decades, Palmisano said. BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2021 In the class-conscious England of the postwar decades, millions of Britain’s expanding middle class sought to erase any trace of their proletarian origins, starting with their accents, which provided her with an abundance of work. New York Times, 16 Sep. 2021 Not until after the Holocaust, when the plight of Jewish refugees in postwar Europe became visible and Jewish settlers demonstrated power in Palestine, did American Jewish support for Israel reach a critical mass. Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1853, in the meaning defined above