wartimenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈwɔː.taɪm/us/ˈwɔːr.taɪm/a period of time during which a war is being fought:
In wartime, food is often scarce.
The film is set in wartime England.
Opposite
peacetime
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- In Britain, the Victoria Cross is awarded for acts of great bravery during wartime.
- The movie is a mirror of daily life in wartime Britain.
- The wartime austerity of my early years prepared me for later hardships.
- It's a moving narrative of wartime adventure.
- The play has its setting in a wartime prison camp.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
War
- antebellum
- battle-scarred
- bellicose
- belligerent
- biological warfare
- concord
- crusade
- hostile
- militarism
- militarist
- pacific
- peacekeeping
- phoney war
- pro-war
- scorched-earth policy
- the Great War
- the Second World War
- war clouds are gathering idiom
- war-torn
- warfare
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