wartime
wartime
Definition
war·time (wôr′tīm′)
noun
a time of war
adjective
of or characteristic of such a time
wartime
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: A special tea was served including some wartime treats including tinned ham sandwiches.
- win: During his two terms at Cambridge he won wartime Blues for hockey and cricket.
Preposition: in
- village: A5 size softback book with 96 pages about wartime in the villages of Keynsham, near Bristol and Sturry, near Canterbury.
Adjective modifier
- light: Currently a civil airfield and light aircraft/helicopter wartime forward operating base.
- great: There are some great wartime wrecks and there is a very active artificial reef program busily sinking more wrecks every year.
- other: In 1940 she married Reginald Moore, founder and editor of " Modern Reading " and other wartime literary magazines.
- pre-war: Alan Turing's biography is interwoven with the course of twentieth-century history and falls naturally into pre-war, wartime and post-war periods.
- first: I cannot remember much about that first wartime Christmas.
Modifies a noun
- airfield: The Café is housed in a fascinating modernist building, which was formerly a control tower for our wartime airfield.
- propaganda: He explains how, as a soldier, he had been impressed by the Allies ' wartime propaganda.
- austerity: The luxury of a second ink or a tinted paper was seldom available, particularly during wartime austerity.
- atrocity: Examples depict heads of state and military leaders, troops at war, wartime atrocities, and scenes mocking the opposing side.
- evacuee: Discover what lies in store for the goody-goody wartime evacuees as they embark on the most exciting wardrobe themed antics outside of Ikea.
- bombing: There were several miles of conduit with the wartime bombing damaging much.
Noun used with modifier
- aircraft/helicopter: Currently a civil airfield and light aircraft/helicopter wartime forward operating base.
- RAF: The covers are finished in selected Chieftan goatskins, dyed the exact shade of the RAF wartime uniform.
- 1940s: Take a step back in time and visit a recreation of a typical 1940s wartime home.
wartime Quotes
Too manypass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.
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