wartime

See also: war time and War Time

English

Alternative forms

• war time

Etymology

war +‎ time

Noun

wartime (countable and uncountable, plural wartimes)

1. (often attributive) A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
   • 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.

Antonyms

• peacetime

Derived terms

• nonwartime
• prewartime
• wartime house

Translations

period of a war

• Albanian: kohë lufte f
• Arabic: زَمَن الْحَرْب m (zaman al-ḥarb), وَقْت الْحَرْب m (waqt al-ḥarb)
• Armenian: պատերազմի ժամանակ (paterazmi žamanak)
• Azerbaijani: müharibə vaxtı
• Belarusian: вае́нны час m (vajénny čas), час вайны́ m (čas vajný)
• Bulgarian: вое́нно вре́ме n (voénno vréme), вре́ме на война́ n (vréme na vojná)
• Burmese: သတ္ထန္တရကပ် (my) (sathtanta.ra.kap)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戰時／战时 (zh) (zhànshí), 战时 (zh) (zhànshí)

• Crimean Tatar: cenk devri
• Czech: válečná doba f
• Danish: krigstid c
• Dutch: oorlogstijd (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: sõjaaeg
• Finnish: sota-aika (fi)
• French: temps de guerre m
• Georgian: ომის დროს (omis dros)
• German: Kriegszeit (de) f
• Hindi: युद्ध-काल m (yuddh-kāl)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: tempo di guerra m
• Japanese: 戦時 (ja) (せんじ, senji)
• Kazakh: соғыс уақыты (soğys uaqyty)
• Korean: 전시(戰時) (ko) (jeonsi)
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• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dema şer

• Latvian: kara laiks m
• Lithuanian: karo metas m
• Macedonian: воено време n (voeno vreme)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krigstid m or f

  Nynorsk: krigstid f

• Okinawan: 戦世 (いくさゆー, ikusayū)
• Persian: زمان جنگ (zamân-e jang)
• Polish: czas wojny m
• Portuguese: tempo de guerra m
• Romanian: vreme de război n
• Russian: вое́нное вре́мя n (vojénnoje vrémja), вре́мя войны́ n (vrémja vojný)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ратно време n, ратно вријеме f

  Roman: ratno vreme n, ratno vrijeme n

• Slovak: vojnový čas m, čas vojny m
• Slovene: vojni čas m
• Spanish: tiempo de guerra m
• Swedish: krigstid (sv) c, ofredstid (sv) c
• Tajik: замони ҷанг (zamon-i jang)
• Thai: ยามสงคราม (yaam-sǒng-kraam)
• Turkish: savaş zamanı
• Ukrainian: воє́нний час m (vojénnyj čas), час війни́ m (čas vijný)
• Vietnamese: thời chiến (vi) (時戰)