英和和英

語源

From war +‎ time.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwɔː(ɹ)taɪm/

名詞

wartime (countable and uncountable, plural wartimes)

1. (often attributive) A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
   • 2002 April 29, Norman Pearlstine, “A Month Of Mondays If that doesn't give you the blues, nothing will. Norman Pearlstine ranks his favorite versions of the classic "Stormy Monday Blues"--one for every doggone working day of the month.”, in CNN Money‎:

     But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.

   • 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs on cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:

     Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.

反意語

• peacetime

派生語

• nonwartime
• prewartime
• wartime footing
• wartime house