Interbellum

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The time period between wars.

    "My parents met during the interbellum between World War I and World War II."

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"My parents met during the interbellum between World War I and World War II."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inter bellum (literally “between war”).

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