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posguerra

postwar period

noun pohs-GEH-rrah Rare
People & Society Government

Usage Note

Posguerra (sometimes written postguerra) refers to the years immediately following a war — in Spain, the term almost always evokes the decades after the 1936-1939 Civil War and the hardships of the Franco era. It is a compound of pos(t)- ('after') and guerra ('war'). The word is feminine and normally used with the definite article: la posguerra.

Examples

"La posguerra fue una época de escasez."

Natural Translation

The postwar period was a time of scarcity.

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