Definition of "pre-war"

Before a war.

1. Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.  examples

2. Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.  examples

3. Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

   1. Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940.  examples

   2. Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.  examples