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Definition: Wartime |
WartimeNoun1. A period of time during which there is armed conflict. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wartime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
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War is any conflict involving the organized use of armss and physical force between countries or other large-scale armed groups.International law has attempted to reduce the mutually destructive results of war. The signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the development of the United Nations System have succeeded in discouraging the description of any specific instance of warfare, by its participants, as a war. This process has been aided by such terminologies as
See Articles 2(3), 2(4) and 2(7) of the United Nations Charter.
- "armed conflict",
- "state aggression by armed force", or
- "crime against international peace."
Carl von Clausewitz wrote in his classic text, On War: "Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln" ("War is merely a continuation of politics by other means") and "War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will."
Wars have been fought to control natural resources, for religious or cultural reasons, over political balances of power, legitimacy of particular laws, to settle economic and territorial disputes, and many other issues. The roots of any war are very complex - there is usually more than one issue involved.
Types of war
Sometimes a distinction is made between a conflict and the formal declaration of a state of war. Those who make this distinction often restrict the term "war" to those conflicts where the countries have formally declared such a state. Smaller armed conflicts are often called riots, rebellions, coupss, etc.
When one country sends armed forces to another allegedly to restore order or prevent genocide or other crimes against humanity, or to support a legally recognized government against insurgency, that country sometimes refers to it as a police action. This usage is not always recognized as valid, however, particularly by those who do not accept the connotations of the term.
A war where the forces in conflict belong to the same country or empire or other political entity is known as a civil war.
War is contrasted with peace, which is usually defined as the absence of war.
Another approach to classifying warfare divides it into four "generations" of war.
First generation warfare
First generation warfare reflects tactics of the era of the smoothbore musket, the tactics of line and column. Operational art in the first generation did not exist as a concept although it was practiced by individual commanders, most prominently Napoleon.
Second generation warfare
Second generation warfare was developed in response to the rifled musket, breechloaders, barbed wire, the machinegun, and indirect fire. Tactics were based on fire and movement but they remained essentially linear, with defenses still attempting to prevent all penetrations and attacks laterally dispersed along a line advanced by rushes in small groups. Second generation tactics remained the basis of U.S. doctrine until the 1980s, and they are still practiced by most American units in the field.
Third generation warfare
Third generation warfare was first developed by the Germans in World War I, to compensate for their inability to match their enemies' industrial output. Its tactics were the first truly nonlinear tactics; attacks rely on infiltration to bypass and collapse the enemy's combat forces rather than seeking to close with and destroy them, and defense was in depth and often invited penetration to set the enemy up for a counterattack.
Fourth generation warfare
Fourth generation warfare is widely dispersed and largely undefined, with a blurred distinction between war and peace and few clear battlefields or fronts. Indeed, it may be difficult to even identify which organizations and individuals are actively participating in the war. Actions will occur concurrently throughout all participants' depth, including their society as a cultural, not just a physical, entity.
Laws of war
A number of treaties regulate warfare, collectively referred to as the Laws of war. The most pervasive of those are the Geneva conventions, the earliest of which began to take effect in the mid 1800s.
Treaty signing has since been a part of international diplomacy, and too many treaties to mention in this scant article have been signed. A couple of examples are: Resolutions of the Geneva International Conference, Geneva, 26-29 October 1863 and Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 75 U.N.T.S. 135, entered into force Oct. 21, 1950.
Statistical analysis
The statistical analysis of war was pioneered by Lewis Fry Richardson following World War I. More recent databases of wars have been assembled by the Correlates of War Project [1] and Peter Brecke [2].
See also
Military, Military technology and equipment, Military history, Military strategy, Military tactics, Just war, Frontline, Military-industrial complex, Weapon, Laws of war, Medieval warfare, World war, war profiteer, Attacks on humanitarian workers.
- List of wars
- List of battles
External links
- Correlates of War Project -- http://www.umich.edu/~cowproj/
- Peter Brecke's article -- http://www.inta.gatech.edu/peter/PSS99_paper.html
- Current Military News, News Sources, and Links.
- anshu's e-corner-security related issues (Anshuman Gaur is an Indian expert on International security) -- http://anshumangaur.tripod.com
- The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation
For the 1970s funk band, see War (band).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "War."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
simple:World War IIWorld War II (in Russia and other parts of the former USSR also known as The Great Patriotic War (for the war after June 1941) and The War Against Aggression) was fought chiefly between the Allies and the Axis Powers. Most of the fighting occurred in the European theatre in and around Europe, and in the Asian theatre in the Pacific and East Asia.
The war in Europe began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. However, Japan had invaded China already in 1937 the (Second Sino-Japanese War), which sometimes is considered the start of the Second World War (Withdrawal of the Japanese after their defeat also catalysed the Chinese Communist Revolution.) Nazi Germany surrendered on May 7, 23:50 PM 1945, ending the war in Europe. The war in the Pacific ended on September 2, 1945, when Japan surrendered.
It was the largest armed conflict in history, spanning virtually the entire world and involving more countries than any other war, introducing powerful new weapons, and culminating in the first use of nuclear weapons. However, despite the name, not all countries of the world were involved; some through maintained neutrality (such as Éire, Sweden and Switzerland), others through strategic insignificance (as Mexico). However, whilst not all countries were involved, it is clear that the Second World War has had a lasting effect in shaping the political climate of the world as we know it today.
The war ravaged civilians more severely than any previous conflict (bringing to its first fruition the concept of total war) and served as a backdrop for genocidal killings by Nazi Germany as well as several other significant mass slaughters of civilians.
These included the massacre of millions of Chinese and Korean nationals by Japan, internal mass killings in the Soviet Union, and the bombing of civilian targets in German and Japanese cities by the Allies, and bombing of European cities by Nazi Germany. In total, World War II produced about 50 million deaths (about 2% of the population of the world), more than any other war to date (see the List of World War II casualties by country).
Preliminaries
Resentment of Germany's treatment in the aftermath of World War I and economic difficulties allowed Adolf Hitler's extreme nationalist Nazi party to come to power in Germany, and he assumed emergency power and virtual total control of the country. Defying post-World War I treaties he redeveloped the German military. He remilitarized the border zone next to France, enforced the unification of Germany with Austria, and annexed parts of Czechoslovakia.
At the same time Benito Mussolini and the Fascist party rose to power in Italy, and formed the Axis with Germany.
Germany entered into a treaty with the Soviet Union, and in 1939 laid claim to parts of Poland. Poland refused the claim, and Britain and France declared support for Poland. Germany then invaded Poland, and on 3rd September 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany.
This needs something on the pre-war Japanese situation
See Preceding events of the European Theatre of World War II
European Theatre
See: European Theatre of World War II and The end of World War II in EuropeIn May of 1940 Germany attacked the Low Countries and then France. Their Blitzkrieg tactics succeeded in defeating the French and British armies in France. The British army evacuated from Dunkirk leaving their heavy equipment behind, and the French government made a peace, which left Germany in control of the North and the Vichy French government in charge of the South.
Germany was unable to defeat the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain and gain the air superiority needed to invade Britain. Instead they began a strategic bombing campaign which the British called the Blitz, and to blockade Britain into submission in the Battle of the Atlantic. Britain failed to succumb to either.
The Italian army attacked the British in Egypt but were driven back until Rommel's Afrika Korps reinforced them. Seesaw battles across the North African desert with the British Eighth Army came to an end with the British victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein. After America joined the war in December 1941, Allied troops landed in Vichy controlled West Africa, linked up with the Eighth Army and succeeded in driving the Axis from the continent.
In June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union, with whom they had a non-agression pact, in Operation Barbarossa. The Russians were caught largely by surprise and Germany conquered vast areas of territory. Tenacious, almost suicidal defense prevented Germany from capturing Moscow by the time winter set in. Germany had expected the campaign to be over in a few months, and had not equipped their armies for winter fighting. In a series of massive battles the tide was turned by 1943 and Germany were on the defensive in Russia.
In 1943, using North Africa as a springboard, the Allies invaded Italy, which Churchill described as "the soft underbelly of Europe". Italy surrendered, but German troops moved to disarm the Italians and set about defending the country on their own. They established a series of tough defensive lines in country that was ideally suited to defense, and progress by the Allies was slow.
The Allies invaded Northern France in Operation Overlord in June 1944 and liberated most of France and the Low Countries by the end of the year. After a desperate counteroffensive by Germany in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, the Allies entered Germany in 1945. By now the Soviets had reached the Eastern borders of Germany, and her fate was sealed. Following Hitler's suicide as the Russians entered Berlin, Germany surrendered unconditionally in May 1945.
Asian Theatre
Main Article: Asian theatre of World War IIThe Japanese had already invaded China before World War II started in Europe. With the United States and other countries cutting exports to Japan, Japan decided to bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941. Japanese forces occupied islands throughout the Pacific and several countries in Asia. An island-hopping offensive by the Allies recaptured the islands while fighting drove the Japanese back on mainland Asia. After Tokyo was firebombed and nuclear bombs hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered.
African and Middle Eastern Theatre
The north African campaign began in 1940, when small British forces in Egypt turned back an Italian advance from Libya. This advance was stopped in 1941 when German forces under Erwin Rommel landed in Libya. Thus began a seesaw campaign that culminated in the two Battles of El Alamein. In addition, In June 1941 the Australian Army and allied forces invaded Syria and Lebanon, capturing Damascus on June 17.The First Battle of El Alamein took place between July 1 and July 27, 1942. Germany had advanced to El Alamein, the last defensible point before Alexandria and the Suez Canal. However, as in the Soviet Union, they had outrun their supplies, and a British defence stopped their thrusts.
The Second Battle of El Alamein occurred between October 23 and November 3, 1942. It saw British forces take the offensive. Rommel was pushed back, and this time did not stop falling back until Tunisia.
To complement this victory, on 8 November, 1942, American and British troops landed in Morocco and Algeria in Operation Torch. The local forces of Vichy France put up limited resistance before joining the Allied cause. Ultimately German and Italian forces were caught in the pincers of a twin advance from Algeria and Libya. Advancing from both the east and west, the Allies completely pushed Germany out of Africa and on May 13, 1943, the remnants of the Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. Not widely known is that the number of prisoners taken in this incident, 250,000 was as many as at Stalingrad.
Historical significance
In contrast to World War I, the Western victors in the Second World War did not demand compensation from the defeated nations. On the contrary, a plan created by U. S. Secretary of State George Marshall, the "Economic Recovery Program", better known as the Marshall Plan, called for the US Congress to allocate billions of dollars for the reconstruction of Europe.
Since the League of Nations had obviously failed to prevent the war, a new international order was constructed. In 1945 the United Nations was founded.
The portion of Europe occupied or dominated by the Soviet Union did not benefit from the Marshall Plan. In the Paris Peace Treaty, the Soviet Union's enemies Hungary, Finland and Romania were required to pay war reparations of $300,000,000 each (in 1938 dollars) to USSR and her satellites. Italy was required to pay $360,000,000, shared chiefly between Greece, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
In the areas occupied by the Soviet Union at the end of the war, puppet communist regimes were installed, over the objections of the other Allies and the governments in exile. Germany was partitioned into two countries, with the Eastern part becoming a separate communist state. In Churchill's words, "an Iron Curtain had descended across Europe". In due course this would lead to a commitment from America to help protect Western Europe, the formation of NATO and the Cold War.
The repatriation, pursuant to the terms of the Yalta Conference, of two million Russian soldiers who had came under the control of advancing American and British forces, resulted for the most part in their deaths.
The massive research and development involved in the Manhattan Project in order to quickly achieve a working nuclear weapon design greatly impacted the scientific community, among other things creating a network of national laboratories in the United States.
In the military sphere, it seems World War II marked the coming of age of airpower, mostly at the expense of warships. While the pendulum continues to swing in this never-ending competition, air powers are now a full partner in any military action.
The war was the high-water mark for mass armies. While huge armies of low-quality troops would be seen again (during the Korean War and in a number of African conflicts), after this victory the major powers relied upon small highly-trained and well-trained militaries.
After the war, many high-ranking Nazis were prosecuted for war crimes, as well as the mass murder of the Holocaust committed mainly on the area of General Government, in the Nuremberg trials. Similarly Japanese leaders were prosecuted in the Tokyo War Crime Trial. In other countries, notably in Finland, the Allies demanded the political leadership to be prosecuted in "war-responsibility trials" - i.e. not for crimes of war.
The defeat of Japan, and her occupation by American Forces, led to a Westernisation of Japan that was surely more far-reaching than would otherwise have occurred. Japan approximated more closely to a Western style democracy and, because of her defeat by the USA, set out to ape the United States. This huge national effort led to the post-war Japanese economic miracle and Japan's rise to become the world's second largest economy.
Military engagements
Battles
- Battle of Dunkirk "Dynamo"
- Battle of Britain
- Battle of Crete
- Operation Barbarossa
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Battle of Kursk
- First Battle of El Alamein
- Second Battle of El Alamein
- Battle of Normandy, also known as D-Day or Operation Overlord
- Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem)
- Battle of Monte Cassino
- Battle of Ardennes (1944) (a.k.a. Battle of the Bulge)
- Battle of Hurtgen Forest
- Battle of Berlin
- Battle of Leyte
- Battle of Peleliu
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- Battle of Okinawa
- Battle of Lugou Bridge
- Battle of Tai er zhuang
- Battle of Changsha
- Battle of Hundred Regiments
Naval engagements
- The Battle of the River Plate
- First Battle of Narvik
- Second Battle of Narvik
- Battle of the Atlantic (1940)
- Battle of Cape Matapan
- Battle of Pearl Harbor
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Guadalcanal
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
Major bombing campaigns
See also Strategic bombing survey for the overall impact of the bombing.
- Dresden
- Baedeker raids
- London ("The Blitz and the V1 and V2 campaigns)
- Hiroshima
- Nagasaki
- Tokyo
- Warsaw
- Rotterdam
- Hamburg
- Plymouth
Common weapons
- Mauser Karabiner 98k
- Sturmgewehr 44
- Thompson M1
- MP38/40
- US M3
- M1 Garand
- M1 Carbine
- Colt M1911
- Parabellum Luger P-08
- Walther P38
- Panzerfaust
- Bazooka
- MG34
- MG42
- Bren
- Sten
- Lee-Enfield
- PIAT
Defensive lines
- Atlantic Wall
- Maginot Line
- Siegfried Line
- GHQ Line
- Taunton Stop Line
Political and Social Aspects of the War
- Occupation of Denmark
- Nazi children
Production and logistics
The Allies won, and the Axis lost, at least partly because the Allies had greater productive resources, and were able to turn these resources into greater numbers of soldiers and weapons than the Axis.
- American tank production during World War II
- German tank production during World War II
- Soviet tank production during World War II
Related articles
- Timeline of the Second World War
- Axis Powers
- British military history of World War II
- British Women's Land Army
- Polish contribution to World War II
- Free French Forces
- Potsdam Agreement
- U.S. campaigns in WWII
- Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- Operation_Downwood
- Devil's_Brigade
- Operation_Shingle
- List_of_aircraft_of_the_WW2_Luftwaffe
Lists
- List of countries involved in World War II
- List of World War II casualties by country
- List of people associated with World War II
External links
- Photos
- WW2 People's War - A project by the BBC to gather the stories of ordinary people from World War II
- BBC History of WW2
References
- Winston Churchill, The Second World War, 6 vols. (1948-1953)
- Martin Gilbert, Second World War, Phoenix, 1995. ISBN 1857993462
- John Keegan, The Second World War (1989)
- B.H. Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War (1970)
- Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett, A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War (2000) ISBN 067400163X
- Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won, Pimlico, 1995. ISBN 0712674535
- Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (1994) ISBN 0521443172
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "World War II."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| WARBAT | English | Wartime order of battle | Military & Defense |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Wartime |
| English words defined with "wartime": Distinguished Service Medal ♦ hospital ship ♦ internment ♦ looting ♦ Red Cross, reprisal, right of search, robbery ♦ shirker, slacker ♦ victory garden ♦ war bride, war crime. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wartime": Bletchley Park ♦ civil affair ♦ defense shipping authority ♦ Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, endurance speed ♦ Period of military service. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Why of Wartime Taxes (1944) Prices in Wartime (1942) Plastic Surgery in Wartime (1941) A Wartime Reformation (1914) The Wartime Siren (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Remains of a wartime dump uncovered after passage of Hurricane Bob on August 19, 1991. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | STAN, short for "standard man," is a life-like computer-controlled casualty simulator used for training Air Force nurses in a variety of disaster response and wartime skills. (Courtesy photo). |
 | John L. Levitow examines the cockpit of the C-17 named for him, the Spirit of John L. Levitow, Jan. 23, 1998 in Long Beach, Calif. Levitow, one of only 16 airmen awarded the Medal of Honor for exceptional heroism during wartime died Nov. 8 at his home in. |  | Underway soon after she was recommissioned, circa 1951-1952. The ship is still essentially in her late World War II configuration, with ten torpedo tubes, 20mm guns, and wartime radars. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Nautilus (SS-168) on a burning Japanese aircraft carrier during the early afternoon of 4 June 1942, as seen through the submarine's periscope. Nautilus thought she had attacked Soryu, and that her torpedoes had exploded when they hit the target. Most evidence, however, is that the ship attacked was Kaga, and that the torpedoes failed to detonate. The ship shown in this wartime diorama does not closely resemble either of those carriers. Credit: NAVY. |  | A Christmas prayer of wartime. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Townspeople volunteer to save wartime oil crop. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior of a crowded bar moments before midnight, June 30, 1919, when wartime prohibition went into effect New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Conversion. Jukebox plant. Pinch hitting for metal, wood is now used in production of file cabinets in wartime America. A supervisor and his assistant in an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern, check a row of the completed cabinets ready for crating. No. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A line of forges that seem endless is turning out a stream of shells that is endless. The auto manufacturing plant that used these same forges for car parts is now on a full wartime production basis. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant Russian people and for my wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In wartime, these private manufacturers can shift to production for military purposes by supplying weaponry parts, assisting maintenance and offering adequate backup for military operations. (references) | |
Children | Liberia | Since many private schools still need to be refurbished due to wartime damage, school fees were increased significantly, thereby making education unattainable for many school-age children. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Slovenia | Limitations on these rights may be made only by statute and only where necessary in criminal cases, to control infectious disease, or in wartime. (references) |
Slovak Republic | The book has been criticized widely by religious groups and the Slovak Academy of Sciences for gross inaccuracies and distortions, particularly in its portrayal of wartime Slovakia and the deportation of Jews and Roma. (references) | |
Economic History | North Korea | The North has perhaps the world's second-largest special operations force (55,000), designed for insertion behind the lines in wartime. (references) |
Angola | Because of severe wartime conditions, including extensive planting of landmines throughout the countryside, agricultural activities have been brought to a near standstill. (references) | |
El Salvador | In December 1992, the FMLN became a political party, composed of the political factions of the wartime guerrilla movement, and maintained a united front during the 1994 electoral campaign. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The two most wanted Bosnian war crimes suspects, wartime commander of the RS Army Ratko Mladic and wartime RS President Radovan Karadzic, remained at large. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Authorities in the RS have failed to conduct full investigations into several wartime disappearance cases, as ordered by the Human Rights Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (references) | |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | On March 14, a marginal nationalist party, Slovak National Unity (SNU), held a rally to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the wartime Slovak state. (references) |
Political Economy | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The nationalist Serb Democratic Party (SDS), founded by wartime Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, won a significant plurality in the RS in the November 2000 elections. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Following elections held in November 2000, a new central government took power on February 22, consisting of a post-election coalition that excluded the nationalist, ethnically-based wartime parties from power. (references) | |
Women | Japan | In October a U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by 15 comfort women, ruling that U.S. courts do not have jurisdiction over claims arising from Japan's wartime conduct. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | We do not any longer need wartime revenues. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Since VJ-day the wartime housing shortage has been growing steadily worse and pressure on real estate values has increased. |
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| "Wartime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.80% of the time. "Wartime" is used about 1,023 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.8% | 1,021 | 7,266 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,023 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "wartime": in wartime ♦ wartime load. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wartime": wartime-approved. | |
Ending with "wartime": ex-wartime, post-wartime. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wartime | 6 |
life during wartime | 5 |
diplomacy franklin roosevelt s successful wartime | 3 |
during life lyrics wartime | 3 |
music wartime | 2 |
poster wartime | 2 |
cartoon wartime | 2 |
picture wartime | 2 |
collectible wartime | 2 |
british songsheets wartime | 2 |
during tokyo wartime | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wartime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lufte, kohë lufte. (various references) | |
Arabic | زمن الحرب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | военновременен, военно време, от войната. (various references) | |
Chinese | 战时. (various references) | |
Danish | maksimal tilladt last under krigsforhold (wartime load). (various references) | |
Dutch | Wet oorlogsstrafrecht (Wartime Offences Act). (various references) | |
Finnish | sodanaikainen. (various references) | |
French | période de guerre. (various references) | |
German | Kriegszeit. (various references) | |
Greek | πολεμική εποχή. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hadi (martial, military, warlike), háborús (warlike). (various references) | |
Italian | tempo di guerra. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 軍国調 (wartime atmosphere), 戦時色 (wartime appearance), 戦時"業 (wartime industry), 戦時"制 (war footing, wartime regime). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぐ""くちょう (wartime atmosphere), せ"じたいせい (war footing, wartime regime), せ"じしょく (wartime appearance), せ"じさ"ぎょう (wartime industry). (various references) | |
Manx | traa caggee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | artimeway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tempo de guerra. (various references) | |
Russian | военное время. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vreme rata, ratno doba, ratni. (various references) | |
Spanish | tiempo de guerra (war time). (various references) | |
Swedish | krigstid. (various references) | |
Turkish | savaş zamanı, savaş (battle, campaign, combat, conflict, crusade, fight, fighting, fray, struggle, war, warfare). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wartime": wartimes. (additional references) | |
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"Wartime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bartumeu, ewarti, partime, warti, wartier, Watamu, worktime. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wartime" (pronounced wô"rtī'm) |
| 4 | -r t ī' m | airtime. |
| 3 | -t ī' m | anytime, bedtime, nighttime, noontime, overtime, pastime, peacetime, ragtime, centime, daytime, dinnertime, downtime, flextime, halftime, lifetime, longtime, lunchtime, maritime, mealtime, meantime, schooltime, showtime, sometime, springtime, summertime, wintertime. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: imaret, waiter. | |
-2 letters: aimer, armet, irate, mater, merit, miter, mitre, ramet, ramie, remit, retia, tamer, tawer, tawie, terai, timer, twier, water, write. | |
-3 letters: airt, amie, amir, emir, emit, item, mair, mare, mart, mate, meat, meta, mire, mite, rami, rate, ream, rime, rite, tame, tare, team, tear, term, tier, time, tire, tram, trim, twae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: wartimes. | |
+2 letters: limewater, sawtimber. | |
+3 letters: dumbwaiter, limewaters, sawtimbers, wolframite. | |
+4 letters: dumbwaiters, wolframites. | |
+5 letters: heartwarming, metalworking, multiwarhead, watermanship, watermarking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Abbreviations 14. Acronyms 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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