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# wartime

«wartime» in Mova's school dictionary: **a period when a country is at war** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wartime — uncountable); adjective (wartime)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wartime is a period when a country is at war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/#m1)

2) As an adjective, wartime means happening in or belonging to such a time: «wartime food». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons pupils learn about life in wartime, especially during the Second World War: rationing of food, evacuation of children from cities, blackouts at night, air-raid shelters and women working in factories. Stories set «in wartime» show courage, hardship and families apart. Phrases: «in wartime», «wartime Britain», «wartime rationing». Opposite: peacetime.

### examples

- In wartime, food was rationed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/#x1)
- Children were evacuated to the countryside in wartime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/#x2)
- Grandma remembers her wartime childhood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/#x3)
- We tasted a wartime recipe with no eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/#x4)
- Wartime posters told people to save food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/#x5)
- The museum shows wartime toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/#x6)
- Many things were scarce in wartime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/#x7)

### note

One word, uncountable. Opposite: peacetime. Used with «in»: «in wartime».

### In the corpora

- [In Israel most adults serve in the army, and many are called back as reservists in wartime.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/27-israel-and-gaza-at-school-and-online/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wartime» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wartime/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.